Life on the inside: The intracellular lifestyle of cytosolic bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 333-340

  Ray, Katrina ^a   Marteyn, Benoit ^a,b   Sansonetti, Philippe J ^b   Tang, Christoph M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOLYSIS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOSOL; CYTOSOLIC BACTERIA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; RICKETTSIA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYTOSOL; HUMANS;

EID: 64749104915     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2112     Document Type: Review

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