BswR controls bacterial motility and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through modulation of the small RNA rsmZ

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4563-4576

  Wang, Chao ^a   Ye, Fuzhou ^b   Kumar, Veerendra ^b   Gao, Yong Gui ^a,b   Zhang, Lian Hui ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HOMODIMER; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA RSMZ; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BSWR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLAGELLUM; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LOCOMOTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84898971070     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku106     Document Type: Article

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