Death's toolbox: Examining the molecular components of bacterial programmed cell death

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 729-738

  Rice, Kelly C ^a   Bayles, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIUM; CELL DAMAGE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0242437905     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.t01-1-03720.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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