The Bacillus subtilis spore coat provides "eat resistance" during phagocytic predation by the protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 165-170

  Klobutcher, Lawrence A ^a   Ragkousi, Katerina ^a   Setlow, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus spore; Phagocytosis; Spore resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MURAMIDASE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 30444457865     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507121102     Document Type: Article

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