Shiga toxin as a bacterial defense against a eukaryotic predator, Tetrahymena thermophila

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5116-5122

  Lainhart, William ^a   Stolfa, Gino ^a   Koudelka, Gerald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; EXOTOXIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PROTEIN STXB; SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEROTOXIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIPHTHERIA; DNA REPAIR; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECA GENE; STX GENE; STXB GENE; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SHIGA TOXINS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 67749090881     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00508-09     Document Type: Article

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