Novel quorum-sensing peptides mediating interspecies bacterial cell death

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kumar, Sathish ^a   Kolodkin Gal, Ilana ^a   Engelberg Kulka, Hanna ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXTRACELLULAR DEATH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR DEATH FACTOR 1; EXTRACELLULAR DEATH FACTOR 2; MAZF TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MAZF PROTEIN, E COLI; OLIGOPEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUORUM SENSING; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84879599860     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00314-13     Document Type: Article

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