The elusive object of desire-Interactions of bacteriophages and their hosts

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 186-193

  Nechaev, Sergei ^a   Severinov, Konstantin ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 42049098196     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2008.02.009     Document Type: Review

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