Mutation rate plasticity in rifampicin resistance depends on Escherichia coli cell-cell interactions

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Krašovec, Rok ^a   Belavkin, Roman V ^b   Aston, John A D ^c,d   Channon, Alastair ^e   Aston, Elizabeth ^e   Rash, Bharat M ^a   Kadirvel, Manikandan ^a,f   Forbes, Sarah ^f   Knight, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIFAMPICIN; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LUXS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LYASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL INTERACTION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; QUORUM SENSING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WILD TYPE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION DENSITY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 84899819618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4742     Document Type: Article

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