Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6985, 2004, Pages 868-871

  You, Lingchong ^a   Cox III, Robert Sidney ^b   Weiss, Ron ^c   Arnold, Frances H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE;

CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION; COUPLING GENE EXPRESSION;

GENES;

CYTOLOGY; GENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL KILLING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC LINKAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL DIVISION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1942467023     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02491     Document Type: Article

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