Lipopolysaccharide core phosphates are required for viability and intrinsic drug resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 718-727

  Walsh, Andrew G ^a   Matewish, Mauricia J ^a   Burrows, Lori L ^a   Monteiro, Mario A ^b   Perry, Malcolm B ^b   Lam, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; NOVOBIOCIN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; METHYLATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HEPTOSES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0033952321     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01741.x     Document Type: Article

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