Affecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa phenotypic plasticity by quorum sensing dysregulation hampers pathogenicity in murine chronic lung infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Bondí, Roslen ^a   Messina, Marco ^a   De Fino, Ida ^b,c   Bragonzi, Alessandra ^b   Rampioni, Giordano ^a   Leoni, Livia ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN QTEE; PROTEIN RSAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RSAL PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MURINE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; QUORUM SENSING; QUORUM SENSING DYSREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL LOAD; C57BL MOUSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LUNG DISEASE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; TIME; VIRULENCE;

MURINAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84913554852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112105     Document Type: Article

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