Pseudomonas aeruginosa OspR is an oxidative stress sensing regulator that affects pigment production, antibiotic resistance and dissemination during infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-91

  Lan, Lefu ^a   Murray, Thomas S ^b   Kazmierczak, Barbara I ^c   He, Chuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROPEROXIDE; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TYROSINE; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 72949110182     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06955.x     Document Type: Article

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