Feast or famine: The host-pathogen battle over amino acids

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1079-1087

  Zhang, Yanjia J ^a   Rubin, Eric J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; METHIONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADAPTATION; AUTOPHAGY; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANDIDA; CHLAMYDIA; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; KWASHIORKOR; LEGIONELLA; LISTERIA; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; XENOPHAGY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CYTOPLASM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84879214891     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12140     Document Type: Review

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