Modulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through alteration of membrane properties

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2529-2542

  Baysse, Christine ^a   Cullinane, Méabh ^a   Dénervaud, Valérie ^a   Burrowes, Elizabeth ^a   Dow, J Maxwell ^a   Morrissey, John P ^a   Tam, Ling ^b   Trevors, Jack T ^b   O'Gara, Fergal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUINOLONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 23844518298     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28185-0     Document Type: Article

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