Transcriptome analysis reveals that multidrug efflux genes are upregulated to protect Pseudomonas aeruginosa from pentachlorophenol stress

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4550-4558

  Muller, Jocelyn Fraga ^a,d   Stevens, Ann M ^b   Craig, Johanna ^c   Love, Nancy G ^a,b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMOSTATS; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH RATE; MICROARRAYS; PHENOLS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL STRESSORS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

GENE ENCODING;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIUM; DRUG; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PCP; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RNA; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL STRESS; DEVICE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34547192667     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00169-07     Document Type: Article

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