The Formation of Persister Cells in Stationary-Phase Cultures of Escherichia Coli Is Associated with the Aggregation of Endogenous Proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Leszczynska, Daria ^a   Matuszewska, Ewelina ^a   Kuczynska Wisnik, Dorota ^a   Furmanek Blaszk, Beata ^a   Laskowska, Ewa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 MORPHOLINOPROPANESULFONIC ACID; ACETIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETAINE; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; SULFANILIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL TYPE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; PERSISTER CELL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; STATIONARY PHASE CULTURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84872875043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054737     Document Type: Article

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