The pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthetic pathway modulates production of biofilm determinants in Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Garavaglia, Marco ^a   Rossi, Elio ^a   Landini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULOSE; CONGO RED; CURLI PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL; URIDINE PHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CARB GENE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OPERON; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PYRB GENE; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOFILMS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELLULOSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES; URACIL; URIDINE MONOPHOSPHATE;

EID: 84857127130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031252     Document Type: Article

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