Nonculturable bacteria: Programmed survival forms or cells at death's door?

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 204-211

  Nyström, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAREDOXIN; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN USPA; PYRUVATE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SENESCENCE; SPOROGENESIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORY;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA REPAIR; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037335780     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10233     Document Type: Review

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