Can bacteria evolve anticancer phenotypes?

Bacteria and Cancer

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 245-258

  Devineni, Navya ^a   Maredia, Reshma ^a   Weitao, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticancer drug; Anticancer therapy; Bacteria; Bacterial attachment; Bacterial invasion; Biofilms; Cancer; DNA damage; DNA replication inhibitors; Infections; Metastasis; Molecular evolution; Proteins; Proteomics; SOS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931418232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2585-0_11     Document Type: Chapter

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