Sticky bacteriophage protect animal cells

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

Volumn 110, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 10475-10476

  Meyer, Justin R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; HUMANS; MUCUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84879541369     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307782110     Document Type: Note

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