Small-molecule inhibition of choline catabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other aerobic choline-catabolizing bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4383-4389

  Fitzsimmons, Liam F ^a   Flemer Jr , Stevenson ^a   Wurthmann, A Sandy ^a   Deker, P Bruce ^a   Sarkar, Indra Neil ^a,b   Wargo, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CHEMICAL INHIBITORS; DEMETHYLATION; DIMETHYLGLYCINE; ENERGY SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOLATES; GENES ENCODING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITOR; IN-SITU; IN-VITRO; NUTRIENT CYCLING; P.AERUGINOSA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS MENDOCINA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SMALL MOLECULES;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; GENES; RESONANCE;

METABOLISM;

CARBON; CHOLINE; DIMETHYLGLYCINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; NITROGEN; SARCOSINE;

BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; CATABOLISM; CATALYSIS; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH REGULATOR; INHIBITION; INHIBITOR; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PSEUDOMONAS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BURKHOLDERIA; CARBON; CHOLINE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; NITROGEN; PSEUDOMONAS; SARCOSINE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA AMBIFARIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS MENDOCINA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 79960086955     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00504-11     Document Type: Article

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