Programming stress-induced altruistic death in engineered bacteria

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tanouchi, Yu ^a   Pai, Anand ^a   Buchler, Nicolas E ^b   You, Lingchong ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

altruistic death; antibiotic response; eagle effect; programmed cell death; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISTIC BACTERIAL PROGRAMMED DEATH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

APOPTOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84870835870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2012.57     Document Type: Article

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