Proteomic analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae biofilms shows shift to anaerobic respiration and changes in nutrient transport and outermembrane proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Phillips, Nancy J ^a   Steichen, Christopher T ^b   Schilling, Birgit ^c   Post, Deborah M B ^c   Niles, Richard K ^a   Bair, Thomas B ^b   Falsetta, Megan L ^b   Apicella, Michael A ^b   Gibson, Bradford W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; STABLE ISOTOPE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CYTOCHROME C PEROXIDASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CYTOCHROME-C PEROXIDASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ISOTOPE LABELING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; PROTEOMICS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84862007836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038303     Document Type: Article

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