Molecular Mechanisms of Stress-Mediated Bacterial Death
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 5579
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antibiotic action and resistance; bacterial cell death; flioroquinolones; gyrase; topoisomerase; reactive oxygen species
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Death is a central feature of microbial biology. Understanding and controlling microbial death are keys to antimicrobial effectiveness, limiting tolerance and persistence, and protecting gut microbiota during antimicrobial treatment. They are also important for the industrial production of toxic compounds by microbes. Lethal stressors have recently gained attention because of the possibility that they kill bacteria through a common mechanism, even though the classes differ with respect to primary targets.
This special issue of Antibiotics will focus on novel observations concerning a variety of topics related to stress-induced death. Suitable subjects include antimicrobial tolerance and persistence, the roles of metabolic changes and signaling pathways, the accumulation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, death during differentiation, and programmed cell death.
We invite the submission of both primary research reports and reviews of recent literature. All articles will be peer-reviewed.
Dr. Karl Drlica
Prof. Dr. Yuzhi Hong
Guest Editors
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