Global regulation of quorum sensing and virulence by VqsR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 831-841

  Juhas, Mario ^a   Wiehlmann, Lutz ^a   Huber, Birgit ^c   Jordan, Doris ^a   Lauber, Joerg ^b   Salunkhe, Prabhakar ^a   Limpert, Anna Silke ^a   von Götz, Franz ^a   Steinmetz, Ivo ^a   Eberl, Leo ^d   Tümmler, Burkhard ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTONE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SERUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 11144354767     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26906-0     Document Type: Article

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