The biofilm-specific antibiotic resistance gene ndvB is important for expression of ethanol oxidation genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3128-3136

  Beaudoin, Trevor ^a,b   Zhang, Li ^a   Hinz, Aaron J ^a   Parr, Christopher J ^a   Mah, Thien Fah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ALCOHOL OXIDATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; DNA MICROARRAY; ERAR GENE; ERBR GENE; ERCS GENE; EXA GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NDVB GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PQQB GENE; PQQC GENE; PQQE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ETHANOL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOBRAMYCIN;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84864012525     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06178-11     Document Type: Article

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