Positive Control of Swarming, Rhamnolipid Synthesis, and Lipase Production by the Posttranscriptional RsmA/RsmZ System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2936-2945

  Heurlier, Karin ^a   Williams, Faye ^b   Heeb, Stephan ^a,b   Dormond, Corinne ^a   Pessi, Gabriella ^a,c   Singer, Dustin ^a   Cámara, Miguel ^b   Williams, Paul ^b   Haas, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; GENE PRODUCT; HOMOSERINE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; LACTONE; LECTIN; LIPID; N ACYLHOMOSERINE; PA IL LECTIN; PYOCYANINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RHAMNOLIPID; RSMA PROTEIN; RSMZ PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSENSOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUORUM SENSING; RSMA GENE; RSMZ GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWARMING; SWIMMING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; LIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

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

EID: 2342494841     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.2936-2945.2004     Document Type: Article

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