Programming stress‐induced altruistic death in engineered bacteria

Abstract Programmed death is often associated with a bacterial stress response. This behavior appears paradoxical, as it offers no benefit to the individual. This paradox can be explained if the death is ‘altruistic’: the killing of some cells can benefit the survivors through release of ‘public goo...

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Main Authors: Yu Tanouchi, Anand Pai, Nicolas E Buchler, Lingchong You
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2012-11-01
Series:Molecular Systems Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/msb.2012.57
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