Elevated levels of the second messenger c-di-GMP contribute to antimicrobial resistance of pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 488-506

  Gupta, Kajal ^a   Liao, Julie ^a   Petrova, Olga E ^a   Cherny, K E ^a   Sauer, Karin ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC DI GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; NORFLOXACIN; PROTEIN BRLR; PROTEIN SAGS; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; BRLR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; MEXA GENE; MEXE GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SECOND MESSENGER;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYCLIC GMP; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899642382     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12587     Document Type: Article

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