Redundant phenazine operons in Pseudomonas aeruginosa exhibit environment-dependent expression and differential roles in pathogenicity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19420-19425

  Recinos, David A ^a   Sekedat, Matthew D ^a   Hernandez, Adriana ^a   Cohen, Taylor Sitarik ^a   Sakhtah, Hassan ^a   Prince, Alice S ^a   Price Whelan, Alexa ^b   Dietrich, Lars E P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHENAZINE; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE; PHZ1 PROTEIN; PHZ2 PROTEIN; QUINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CATALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPERON; PHENAZINES; PLANKTON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUINOLONES; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84869745002     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213901109     Document Type: Article

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