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NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 12, Pages 890-896Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2453
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM81368] Funding Source: Medline
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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.
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