Cell-to-Cell Transformation in Escherichia coli: A Novel Type of Natural Transformation Involving Cell-Derived DNA and a Putative Promoting Pheromone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Etchuuya, Rika ^a   Ito, Miki ^a   Kitano, Seiko ^a   Shigi, Fukiko ^a   Sobue, Rina ^a   Maeda, Sumio ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; NAKED DNA; PHEROMONE; PLASMID DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOFILM; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; HEAT TREATMENT; LIQUID CULTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; PLASMID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

BIOFILMS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79251619232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016355     Document Type: Article

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