Learning from cancer how to defeat bacteria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3212-3213

  Onuchic, José N ^a   Jennings, Patricia A ^b   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a,c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; NORSPERMIDINE; PEPTIDOMIMETIC AGENT; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SALINOMYCIN; SPERMIDINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APOPTOSIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENANTIOMER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CELL MEMBRANE; PEPTIDOMIMETICS;

EID: 84874481072     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222882110     Document Type: Note

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