Corrigendum: What is the link between stringent response, endoribonuclease encoding type II toxin-antitoxin systems and persistence?" [Front. Microbiol., 7 (2016) (1882)] DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01882;What is the link between stringent response, endoribonuclease encoding type II toxin-antitoxin systems and persistence?

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  Ramisetty, Bhaskar C M ^a,b   Ghosh, Dimpy ^a   Chowdhury, Maoumita Roy ^a   Santhosh, Ramachandran S ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fitness; Inorganic polyphosphate; Polar effects; PpGpp; ppGpp

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTITOXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; DISK DIFFUSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GROWTH CURVE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; UPREGULATION;

EID: 85006778885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00458     Document Type: Erratum

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