Sticky situations: Key components that control bacterial surface attachment

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2413-2425

  Petrova, Olga E ^a   Sauer, Karin ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; INDOLE; IRON; MAGNESIUM ION; MANNOSE; MONOSACCHARIDE; MUCIN; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; NORADRENALIN; PHOSPHATE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL SURFACE ATTACHMENT; BIOFILM; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SHORT SURVEY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861387333     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00003-12     Document Type: Short Survey

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