Intranuclear bacteria: Inside the cellular control center of eukaryotes

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 339-346

  Schulz, Frederik ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endonuclear; Nucleus; Rickettsia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EUKARYOTE; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; INVERTEBRATE; LYSIS; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTHROPODA; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PROTISTA; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; VACUOLES;

EID: 84929513551     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.01.002     Document Type: Review

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