Dispersed cells represent a distinct stage in the transition from bacterial biofilm to planktonic lifestyles

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chua, Song Lin ^a,b   Liu, Yang ^a   Yam, Joey Kuok Hoong ^a,c   Chen, Yicai ^a   Vejborg, Rebecca Munk ^d   Tan, Bryan Giin Chyuan ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a,e   Tolker Nielsen, Tim ^d   Givskov, Michael ^a,d   Yang, Liang ^a,f  

^a National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN RSMY; PROTEIN RSMZ; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL RNA; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP; IRON CHELATING AGENT; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PYOVERDINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CELL ORGANELLE; GROWTH RATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SECRETION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC GMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MUTATION; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84904704133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5462     Document Type: Article

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