Survival Kinetics of Starving Bacteria Is Biphasic and Density-Dependent

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Phaiboun, Andy ^a   Zhang, Yiming ^a   Park, Boryung ^a   Kim, Minsu ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CELL DENSITY; DELAY CELL; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; E.COLI CELLS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; HIGH CELL DENSITY; LOWER DENSITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PROLONGED STARVATION; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS;

KINETICS;

GLYCEROL; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CELL DENSITY; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RPOS GENE; STARVATION; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84929485992     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004198     Document Type: Article

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