Genetic and biochemical analyses of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Psl exopolysaccharide reveal overlapping roles for polysaccharide synthesis enzymes in Psl and LPS production

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 622-638

  Byrd, Matthew S ^a   Sadovskaya, Irina ^b   Vinogradov, Evgueny ^c   Lu, Haiping ^a   Sprinkle, April B ^a   Richardson, Stephen H ^a   Ma, Luyan ^d   Ralston, Brad ^a   Parsek, Matthew R ^e   Anderson, Erin M ^f   Lam, Joseph S ^f   Wozniak, Daniel J ^d  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MANNOSE; NUCLEOTIDE; PENTASACCHARIDE; RHAMNOSE; THYMIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSL GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 70350144293     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06795.x     Document Type: Article

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