A quorum on bacterial programmed cell death.
A recent article in Science (Kolodkin-Gal et al., 2007) reported a novel programmed cell death mechanism for Escherichia coli that occurs during cellular overcrowding via the release of a fratricidal pentapeptide derived from the metabolic enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.
W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Wen-Chih
WC
Cheng
J Marie
JM
Hardwick
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D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D010455:Peptides