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L-form bacteria, chronic diseases and the origins of life

The peptidoglycan cell wall is widely conserved across the bacterial domain, suggesting that it appeared early in the evolution of bacteria. It is normally essential but under certain conditions wall-deficient or ‘L-form’ bacteria can be isolated. In Bacillus subtilis this normally requires two gene...

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Autores principales: Errington, Jeff, Mickiewicz, Katarzyna, Kawai, Yoshikazu, Wu, Ling Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27672147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0494