Myxobacterial vesicles. Death at a distance?

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-31

  Whitworth, David E ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Motility; Multicellular development; Myxococcus xanthus; OMV; Outer membrane vesicles; Predation; Sorangium cellulosum

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DISORAZOLE; EPOTHILONE A; EPOTHILONE B; HYDROLASE; IXABEPILONE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; THUGGACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BOOK; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BREAST CANCER; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOLOGY; FRANCISELLA; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MYXOCOCCUS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OUTER MEMBRANE; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; METABOLISM; MYXOCOCCALES; PROTEOMICS;

MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; OAT MOSAIC VIRUS; POLYANGIUM CELLULOSUM; POSIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HYDROLASES; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 79960926365     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387046-9.00001-3     Document Type: Chapter

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