Are the molecular strategies that control apoptosis conserved in bacteria?

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 306-311

  Bayles, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN CID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN LRG; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN BID; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTRUISM; APOPTOSIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL DEATH; MITOCHONDRION; MODEL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0142043804     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00144-6     Document Type: Article

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