QsrO a novel regulator of quorum-sensing and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Köhler, Thilo ^a,b   Ouertatani Sakouhi, Hajer ^a   Cosson, Pierre ^a   Van Delden, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ELASTASE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LASI GENE; LASR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PQSR GENE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSLA GENE; QSRO GENE; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; RHLI GENE; RHLR GENE; START CODON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84895791015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087814     Document Type: Article

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