The roles of the quorum-sensing system in the release of extracellular DNA, lipopolysaccharide, and membrane vesicles from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 375-378

  Nakamura, Shigeki ^a   Higashiyama, Yasuhito ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a   Seki, Masafumi ^a   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^b   Mizuta, Yohei ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HYDROLASE; N (3 OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SUPERNATANT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOFILMS; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSPORT VESICLES;

EID: 54449091148     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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