A quorum on bacterial programmed cell death |
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Authors: | Cheng Wen-Chih Hardwick J Marie |
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Affiliation: | W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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