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- Title
Exit from dormancy in microbial organisms.
- Authors
Dworkin, Jonathan; Shah, Ishita M.
- Abstract
Bacteria can exist in metabolically inactive states that allow them to survive conditions that are not conducive for growth. Such dormant cells may sense when conditions have improved and re-initiate growth, lest they be outcompeted by their neighbours. Growing bacteria turn over and release large quantities of their cell walls into the environment. Drawing from recent work on the germination of Bacillus subtilis spores, we propose that many microorganisms exit dormancy in response to cell wall muropeptides.
- Subjects
MICROORGANISMS; DORMANCY (Biology); BACTERIAL growth; BACILLUS subtilis; BACTERIAL cell walls
- Publication
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010, Vol 8, Issue 12, p890
- ISSN
1740-1526
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrmicro2453