Pseudomonas aeruginosa Autoinducer Enters and Functions in Mammalian Cells

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2281-2287

  Williams, Simon C ^a,c   Patterson, Erin K ^b,c   Carty, Nancy L ^b   Griswold, John A ^a   Hamood, Abdul N ^b   Rumbaugh, Kendra P ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c Southwest Cancer Center at UMC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; LUCIFERASE; N 3 OXODODECANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N BUTYRYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 1842611117     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.8.2281-2287.2004     Document Type: Article

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