A Quality-Control Mechanism Removes Unfit Cells from a Population of Sporulating Bacteria

Developmental Cell

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 682-693

  Tan, Irene S ^a,b   Weiss, Cordelia A ^a   Popham, David L ^c   Ramamurthi, Kumaran S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Virginia Tech ^*  (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CLPXP PROTEASE; CMPA PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SPOIVA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROTECTION; CYTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPOROGENESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

APOPTOSIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84942523800     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.08.009     Document Type: Article

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