Self-produced exopolysaccharide is a signal that stimulates biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20632-20636

  Irie, Yasuhiko ^a   Borlee, Bradley R ^a,c   O'Connor, Jennifer R ^a   Hill, Preston J ^b   Harwood, Caroline S ^a   Wozniak, Daniel J ^b   Parsek, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIS(3',5') CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP; DIGUANYLATE CYCLASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE, PSEUDOMONAS; LYASE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIAL GENE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SECOND MESSENGER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CYCLIC GMP; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84874400919     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217993109     Document Type: Article

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