The phenazine pyocyanin is a terminal signalling factor in the quorum sensing network of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1308-1321

  Dietrich, Lars E P ^a   Price Whelan, Alexa ^b   Petersen, Ashley ^c   Whiteley, Marvin ^c   Newman, Dianne K ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FERRIC ION; FLAVIN DEPENDENT MONOOXYGENASE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE; PYOCYANINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENE MUTATION; MEXGHI GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OPMD GENE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUORUM SENSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PHENAZINES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYOCYANINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP;

EID: 33747082622     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05306.x     Document Type: Article

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