Influence of the photorhabdus luminescens phosphomannose isomerase gene, manA, on mannose utilization, exopolysaccharide structure, and biofilm formation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 776-785

  Amos, Matthew R ^a   Sanchez Contreras, Maria ^a   Jackson, Robert W ^a,b   Muñoz Berbel, Xavier ^a   Ciche, Todd A ^c   Yang, Guowei ^a   Cooper, Richard M ^a   Waterfield, Nicholas R ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC SURFACES; BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; BIOFILM FORMATION; BIOFILM MATRIX; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDES; IMMUNE DEFENSE; PHENOTYPIC ANALYSIS; PHOSPHO-MANNOSE ISOMERASE; SOLE CARBON SOURCE; STRUCTURAL MATRIX; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

BIOFILMS; GENES;

BIOFILTERS;

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEMATODE; PATHOGEN; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; NEMATODE; PHOTORHABDUS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; MANNOSE; MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MOTHS; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HETERORHABDITIDAE; HEXAPODA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 79551497313     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02326-10     Document Type: Article

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