A Serratia marcescens OxyR homolog mediates surface attachment and biofilm formation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 7262-7272

  Shanks, Robert M Q ^a,b   Stella, Nicholas A ^a   Kalivoda, Eric J ^a   Doe, Megan R ^c   O'Dee, Dawn M ^b   Lathrop, Kira L ^a   Feng, Li Guo ^d   Nau, Gerard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL INTERACTION; FIMABCD GENE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYR GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 35048885742     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00859-07     Document Type: Article

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