Autolysis and autoaggregation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa colony morphology mutants

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 6481-6489

  D'Argenio, David A ^a   Calfee, M Worth ^a   Rainey, Paul B ^a   Pesci, Everett C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; PYOCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATOR GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUINOLONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

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

EID: 0036889484     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.23.6481-6489.2002     Document Type: Article

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