Cryptic prophages help bacteria cope with adverse environments

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoxue ^a   Kim, Younghoon ^a   Ma, Qun ^a   Hong, Seok Hoon ^a   Pokusaeva, Karina ^b   Sturino, Joseph M ^b   Wood, Thomas K ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; QUINOLONE; BETA LACTAM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PROPHAGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; BETA-LACTAMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROPHAGES; QUINOLONES;

EID: 79251573217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1146     Document Type: Article

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