The Pel and Psl polysaccharides provide Pseudomonas aeruginosa structural redundancy within the biofilm matrix

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1913-1928

  Colvin, Kelly M ^a   Irie, Yasuhiko ^a   Tart, Catherine S ^a   Urbano, Rodolfo ^a   Whitney, John C ^b,c   Ryder, Cynthia ^d   Howell, P Lynne ^b,c   Wozniak, Daniel J ^e   Parsek, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84864379470     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02657.x     Document Type: Article

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