Transcriptome profiling reveals links between ParS/ParR, MexEF-OprN, and quorum sensing in the regulation of adaptation and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Dongping ^a   Seeve, Candace ^a,b   Pierson III, Leland S ^a   Pierson, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mexEF oprN; parS parR; Pseudomonas; Quorum sensing; Two component signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DIHYDROPYRIMIDINASE; DIMETHYLANILINE MONOOXYGENASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MEXEF OPRN PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PARR PROTEIN; PARS PROTEIN; PHENAZINE; PORIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RHAMNOLIPID; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DENSITY; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884507153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-618     Document Type: Article

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