Localized gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 4463-4471

  Lenz, Ailyn P ^a   Williamson, Kerry S ^a   Pitts, Betsey ^a   Stewart, Philip S ^a   Franklin, Michael J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOACTIVITY; BIOFILMS; COSMIC RAYS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RNA;

16S RRNA; AMERICAN SOCIETY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; AVERAGE VALUES; BIO FILMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP); HIGH-SPATIAL-RESOLUTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION (LCM); MRNA LEVELS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; P. AERUGINOSA; PCR TECHNIQUES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA (APRIN); Q RT PCR; QUORUM SENSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE PCR; RNA TRANSCRIPTS; SMALL GROUPS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED; WILD-TYPE (WT);

BIOFILTERS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

BIOFILM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; RNA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; EXOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 47749148478     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00710-08     Document Type: Article

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