Two programmed cell death systems in escherichia coli: An apoptotic-like death is inhibited by the mazef-mediated death pathway

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Erental, Ariel ^a   Sharon, Idith ^a   Engelberg Kulka, Hanna ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CELL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR DEATH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN MAZE; PROTEIN MAZEF; PROTEIN MAZF; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MAZE PROTEIN, E COLI; MAZF PROTEIN, E COLI; RIBONUCLEASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUORUM SENSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; NICK END LABELING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; QUORUM SENSING; REC A RECOMBINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84858952029     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001281     Document Type: Article

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