Inactivation of pyocyanin synthesis genes has no effect on the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 toward the silkworm, Bombyx mori

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-107

  Chieda, Yuuka ^a,b   Iiyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Lee, Jae Man ^a   Kusakabe, Takahiro ^a   Yasunaga Aoki, Chisa ^a   Shimizu, Susumu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; phzM; phzS; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Pyocyanin; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHENAZINE; PHZM PROTEIN; PHZS PROTEIN; PYOCYANINE; QUERCETIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SYNTHESIS; LARVA; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BOMBYX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MORTALITY; MUTAGENESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYOCYANINE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BOMBYX MORI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 36749075052     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00982.x     Document Type: Article

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