Second messenger signalling governs Escherichia coli biofilm induction upon ribosomal stress

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1500-1516

  Boehm, Alex ^a   Steiner, Samuel ^a   Zaehringer, Franziska ^a   Casanova, Alain ^a   Hamburger, Fabienne ^a   Ritz, Daniel ^b   Keck, Wolfgang ^b   Ackermann, Martin ^c   Schirmer, Tilman ^a   Jenal, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS LTD   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE YDEH; HYDROLASE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; LINEZOLID; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SECOND MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; UPREGULATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-GLUCANS; BIOFILMS; CYCLIC GMP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PYROPHOSPHATASES; RIBOSOMES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 66949141781     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06739.x     Document Type: Article

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