エシェリキア・コライ菌の接触依存の成長抑制

Stephanie K Aoki1, Rupinderjit Pamma, Aaron D Hernday

  • 1Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 20, 2005
PubMed
まとめ

特定のE. coli菌株は,接触に依存する成長抑制システムを備えています. CdiAおよびCdiBタンパク質を含むこの細菌の伝達機構は,特定の条件に基づいて細胞の成長を調節します.

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