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SUBMITTER: Dwyer DJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710583 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dwyer Daniel J DJ Camacho Diogo M DM Kohanski Michael A MA Callura Jarred M JM Collins James J JJ
Molecular cell 20120524 5
Programmed cell death is a gene-directed process involved in the development and homeostasis of multicellular organisms. The most common mode of programmed cell death is apoptosis, which is characterized by a stereotypical set of biochemical and morphological hallmarks. Here we report that Escherichia coli also exhibit characteristic markers of apoptosis-including phosphatidylserine exposure, chromosome condensation, and DNA fragmentation-when faced with cell death-triggering stress, namely bact ...[more]