The Pseudomonas aeruginosa flagellum confers resistance to pulmonary surfactant protein-A by impacting the production of exoproteases through quorum-sensing

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1220-1235

  Kuang, Zhizhou ^a   Hao, Yonghua ^a   Hwang, Sunghei ^b   Zhang, Shiping ^c   Kim, Eunice ^a   Akinbi, Henry T ^c   Schurr, Michael J ^d   Irvin, Randall T ^e   Hassett, Daniel J ^b   Lau, Gee W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPEPTIDASE; FLAGELLIN; HOMOSERINE LACTONE; LACTONE; LYSOZYME; PYOCYANINE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LASI GENE; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG INFECTION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RHII GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EXOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; QUORUM SENSING;

MAMMALIA; MUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 79951782204     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07516.x     Document Type: Article

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