Involvement of flagella-driven motility and pili in pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization at the air-liquid interface

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 320-323

  Yamamoto, Kyosuke ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^a   Ishii, Masaharu ^a   Igarashi, Yasuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Motility; Pellicle; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Surface adherence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; FIMBRIA; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; LOCOMOTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84867875984     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11322     Document Type: Article

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