The global regulator Crc modulates metabolism, susceptibility to antibiotics and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3196-3212

  Linares, Juan F ^a   Moreno, Renata ^a   Fajardo, Alicia ^a   Martínez Solano, Laura ^a   Escalante, Ricardo ^b   Rojo, Fernando ^a   Martínez, José L ^a,c  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRC PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS; PROTEOME; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; VIRULENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; DICTYOSTELIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; PROTEOME; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 78650070851     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02292.x     Document Type: Article

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