Quorum sensing-dependent biofilms enhance colonization in Vibrio cholerae

Developmental Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 647-656

  Zhu, Jun ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; SYNTHETASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ACID; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WILD TYPE;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CHOLERA; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUTATION; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0141989893     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00295-8     Document Type: Article

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