Attenuation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence by quorum sensing inhibitors

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 3803-3815

  Hentzer, Morten ^a   Wu, Hong ^b   Andersen, Jens Bo ^a   Riedel, Kathrin ^c   Rasmussen, Thomas B ^a   Bagge, Niels ^f   Kumar, Naresh ^f   Schembri, Mark A ^a   Song, Zhijun ^b   Kristoffersen, Peter ^a   Manefield, Mike ^d   Costerton, John W ^e   Molin, Søren ^a   Eberl, Leo ^c   Steinberg, Peter ^f   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^f   Høiby, Niels ^b   Givskov, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Antagonists; Biofilm; Furanone; GeneChip; Microarray; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

FURANONE DERIVATIVE; TOBRAMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SPECIFICITY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FURANS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON; VIRULENCE;

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

EID: 0041989633     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg366     Document Type: Article

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