Cell death in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4585-4592

  Webb, Jeremy S ^a   Thompson, Lyndal S ^a   James, Sally ^a   Charlton, Tim ^a   Tolker Nielsen, Tim ^b   Koch, Birgit ^b   Givskov, Michael ^b   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPREADING; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; CYTOLYSIS; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; MICROCOLONY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE PF1; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOFILMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PROPHAGES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PHAGE PF1; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0038105041     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.15.4585-4592.2003     Document Type: Article

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