The Lon Protease Is Essential for Full Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Breidenstein, Elena B M ^a   Janot, Laure ^a   Strehmel, Janine ^b   Fernandez, Lucia ^a   Taylor, Patrick K ^a   Kukavica Ibrulj, Irena ^c   Gellatly, Shaan L ^a   Levesque, Roger C ^c   Overhage, Joerg ^b   Hancock, Robert E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; MUCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PAO1 GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CIPROFLOXACIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICE; MUTATION; PROTEASE LA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RATS; VIRULENCE;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RATTUS;

EID: 84868706066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049123     Document Type: Article

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