Adaptive expression of foreign genes in the clonal variants of bacteria: From proteomics to clinical application

Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 882-892

  Sriramulu, Dinesh D ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Clonal population structure; Enterosomes; Horizontal gene transfer; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DAPTOMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIODEGRADATION; CHROMOSOME; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; CLONE CELLS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 40549115963     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700811     Document Type: Review

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