Programming a Human Commensal Bacterium, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, to Sense and Respond to Stimuli in the Murine Gut Microbiota

Cell Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 62-71

  Mimee, Mark ^a,b   Tucker, Alex C ^a   Voigt, Christopher A ^a   Lu, Timothy K ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RECOMBINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLIC CAPACITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; RNA INTERFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; MURINAE;

EID: 84938323503     PISSN: 24054712     EISSN: 24054720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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