Escherichia coli gets the message

Nature Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1118-1119

  Winzer, Klaus ^a   Williams, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

CELL COMMUNICATION AND CELL CONTACT; CELL INTERACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CATECHOLAMINES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EPINEPHRINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOMOSERINE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; LACTONES; MUTATION; NOREPINEPHRINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0141625673     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0903-1118     Document Type: Short Survey

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