TOL plasmid carriage enhances biofilm formation and increases extracellular DNA content in Pseudomonas putida KT2440

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 84-92

  D'Alvise, Paul W ^a   Sjøholm, Ole R ^b   Yankelevich, Tatiana ^a   Jin, Yujie ^c   Wuertz, Stefan ^c   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Air liquid interface; Biofilm; Extracellular DNA; TOL plasmid

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLASS;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLYSIS; DNA CONTENT; DNA SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 78651511022     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02105.x     Document Type: Letter

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