A quorum-sensing autoinducer enhances the mexAB-oprM efflux-pump expression without the MexR-mediated regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 435-439

  Sawada, Isao ^a   Maseda, Hideaki ^a   Nakae, Taiji ^b   Uchiyama, Hiroo ^a   Nomura, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

MexAB OprM; MexR; MexT; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N BUTYRYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEIN MEXAB OPRM; PROTEIN MEXR; PROTEIN MEXT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

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

EID: 2442656315     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2004.tb03533.x     Document Type: Article

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