Friend or foe? a review of the mechanisms that drive serratia towards diverse lifestyles

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 627-640

  Petersen, Lauren M ^a   Tisa, Louis S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Biocontrol agent; Hemolysis; Host microbe interactions; Lytic enzymes; Mutualism; Pathogenesis; Rhizobacterium; Secreted compounds; Serratia; Symbiosis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CHITINASE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOLYSIN; HYDROLASE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; METALLOPROTEINASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PRODIGIOSIN; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PYRROLNITRIN; SIDEROPHORE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOCONTROL AGENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENZYME; MUTUALISM; NICHE; PATHOGENICITY; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ALASTRIM; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; APHID; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CORAL; CROP; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; HELA CELL; HEMOLYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFLAMMATION; INSECT; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; KERATITIS; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAMMAL CELL; MENINGITIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; RHIZOSPHERE BACTERIUM; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRATE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; PLANTS; SERRATIA; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84883634678     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2013-0343     Document Type: Review

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