ArticlemSphere2018
Minicells as a Damage Disposal Mechanism in Escherichia coli.
Article in mSphere, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A link between aging and persistence.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025Article
- Manipulating subcellular protein localization to enhance target protein accumulation in minicells.Journal of biological engineering · 2025Article
- Production of minicell-like structures by Escherichia coli biosynthesizing cadmium fluorescent nanoparticles: a novel response to heavy metal exposure.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2025Article
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- The potential use of bacteria and bacterial derivatives as drug delivery systems for viral infection.Virology journal · 2023Review
- Visualizing the membrane disruption action of antimicrobial peptides by cryo-electron tomography.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Biomineralization of lithium nanoparticles by Li-resistant Pseudomonas rodhesiae isolated from the Atacama salt flat.Biological research · 2022Article
- Cellular senescence, rejuvenation and potential immortality.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Microbial Biocontainment Systems for Clinical, Agricultural, and Industrial Applications.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Review
- The Evolution of the Hallmarks of Aging.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Review
- Senescence in Bacteria and Its Underlying Mechanisms.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- A Quantitative Survey of Bacterial Persistence in the Presence of Antibiotics: Towards Antipersister Antimicrobial Discovery.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- DNA Nanostructures for Targeted Antimicrobial Delivery.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2020Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Many bacteria produce small, spherical minicells that lack chromosomal DNA and therefore are unable to proliferate. Although minicells have been used extensively by researchers as a molecular tool, nothing is known about why bacteria produce them. Here, we show that minicells help
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