Acetate metabolism and Escherichia coli biofilm: New approaches to an old problem

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-103

  Lynnes, Ty ^a   Prüß, Birgit M ^a   Samanta, Priyankar ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetate metabolism; Biofilm associated infectious disease; Escherichia coli; Quorum sensing; Two component signaling

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE;

ACETYLATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO COMPONENT SIGNALING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84879544113     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12174     Document Type: Review

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