Lethal protein produced in response to competition between sibling bacterial colonies

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

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6258-6263

  Be'er, Avraham ^a   Ariel, Gil ^a   Kalisman, Oren ^b   Helman, Yael ^b   Sirota Madi, Alexandra ^b   Zhang, H P ^a   Florin, E L ^a   Payne, Shelley M ^a   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^b,c   Swinney, Harry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial competition; Bacterial growth inhibition; Growth regulation; Paenibacillus dendritiformis; Subtilisin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIBLING LETHAL FACTOR; SUBTILISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS DENDRITIFORMIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PAENIBACILLUS; SUBTILISIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS DENDRITIFORMIS;

EID: 77950908033     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001062107     Document Type: Article

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