The molecularly crowded cytoplasm of bacterial cells: Dividing cells contrasted with viable but non-culturable (VBNC) bacterial cells

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-6

  Trevors, J T ^a   van Elsas, J D ^b   Bej, A K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM ION; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CYTOPLASM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRESS; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA SYNTHESIS; VIABLE BUT NON CULTURABLE BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS;

BACTERIA; CELL DIVISION; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84862282862     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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