Evidence for Sigma Factor Competition in the Regulation of Alginate Production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Yin, Yeshi ^a,b   Withers, T Ryan ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Yu, Hongwei D ^a,c  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c Progenesis Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOD; STARVATION PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGU GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSPOSON;

ALGINATES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MUCUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84882803450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072329     Document Type: Article

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