Genetic analysis of functions involved in the late stages of biofilm development in Burkholderia cepacia H111

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 411-426

  Huber, Birgit ^a   Riedel, Kathrin ^a   Köthe, Manuela ^a   Givskov, Michael ^b   Molin, Søren ^b   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; POLYSTYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; BIOGENESIS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYSTYRENES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0036428671     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03182.x     Document Type: Article

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