Regulatory and Metabolic Networks for the Adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms to Urinary Tract-Like Conditions

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tielen, Petra ^a   Rosin, Nathalie ^a,c   Meyer, Ann Kathrin ^a   Dohnt, Katrin ^a   Haddad, Isam ^a   Jänsch, Lothar ^b   Klein, Johannes ^a   Narten, Maike ^a   Pommerenke, Claudia ^a,c   Scheer, Maurice ^a   Schobert, Max ^a   Schomburg, Dietmar ^a   Thielen, Bernhard ^a   Jahn, Dieter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; FATTY ACID; IRON; NITRATE REDUCTASE; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE SYNTHASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL VIABILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGINATES; AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; BIOFILMS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; IRON; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOME; PROTEOME; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUORUM SENSING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84881498162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071845     Document Type: Article

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