Transcriptional profiling of para and ParB mutants in actively dividing cells of an opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bartosik, Aneta A ^a   Glabski, Krzysztof ^a   Jecz, Paulina ^a   Mikulska, Sylwia ^a   Fogtman, Anna ^a   Koblowska, Marta ^a,b   Jagura Burdzy, Grazyna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; PVDS PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; LACZ GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARA GENE; PARB GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84900308646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087276     Document Type: Article

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