A novel sensor kinase-response regulator hybrid controls biofilm formation and type VI secretion system activity in Burkholderia cenocepacia

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1979-1991

  Aubert, Daniel F ^a   Flannagan, Ronald S ^a   Valvano, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADHERENCE AND TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM REGULATOR PROTEIN; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN RETS; CARRIER PROTEIN; RETS PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADHERENCE AND TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM REGULATOR GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CELL ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRID; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SECRETION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSPOSON; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 42949164547     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01338-07     Document Type: Article

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