SagS contributes to the motile-sessile switch and acts in concert with BfiSR to enable Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6614-6628

  Petrova, Olga E ^a   Sauer, Karin ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BFIS PROTEIN; SAGS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN BINDING; VIRULENCE;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT DISEASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84855410164     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00305-11     Document Type: Article

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