Effect of Phosphoglucosamine Mutase on Biofilm Formation and Antimicrobial Susceptibilities in M. smegmatis glmM Gene Knockdown Strain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kang, Jian ^a   Xu, Liming ^a   Yang, Shufeng ^a   Yu, Wendan ^a   Liu, Shuo ^a   Xin, Yi ^a,b   Ma, Yufang ^a,b  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Liaoning Provincial Core Lab of Glycobiology and Glycoengineering   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MUTASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOSAMINE MUTASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOGLUCOSAMINE MUTASE GENE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

EID: 84876017575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061589     Document Type: Article

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