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Hungry bacteria--definition and properties of a nutritional state.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2001
Ferenci T
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria are sometimes neither starving nor under nutrient-excess conditions. When growing with suboptimal levels of nutrients, hungry bacteria express appropriate cellular responses. This review discusses approaches to defining the hunger response in both molecular and growth kinetic terms. The gene expression changes unique to hunger conditions are described, using Escherichia coli as the primary example....
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