Bacterial programmed cell death: Making sense of a paradox

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-69

  Bayles, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; BH3 PROTEIN; CASPASE; CYTOCHROME C; DEATH RECEPTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; GENOMIC DNA; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN P53; RIBONUCLEASE;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EFFECTOR CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; DNA DAMAGE; EUKARYOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84890464366     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3136     Document Type: Review

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