Crowning: A novel Escherichia coli colonizing behaviour generating a self-organized corona

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gómez Gómez, José María ^a,b   Amils, Ricardo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b OAS BioAstronomy Group   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Crowning behaviour; CRP independent behaviour; CsgD independent behaviour; Escherichia coli's corona; Glucose repression; Macrocolony biofilm

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESIN; COLANIC ACID; CRP PROTEIN, E COLI; CSGD PROTEIN, E COLI; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84897642691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-108     Document Type: Article

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