A conservative amino acid mutation in the master regulator FleQ renders Pseudomonas aeruginosa aflagellate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Jain, Ruchi ^a   Kazmierczak, Barbara I ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEQ PROTEIN; GLYCINE; INTERLEUKIN 1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLEQ PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; C57BL MOUSE; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; LUNG INFARCTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTERLEUKIN-1; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PULMONARY INFARCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84901342760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097439     Document Type: Article

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