Type IV pili interactions promote intercellular association and moderate swarming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 18013-18018

  Anyan, Morgen E ^a   Amiri, Aboutaleb ^b   Harvey, Cameron W ^b   Tierra, Giordano ^b   Morales Soto, Nydia ^a,b   Driscoll, Callan M ^a,b   Alber, Mark S ^b,c   Shrout, Joshua D ^a,b,d  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Collective motion; Computational model; Predictive simulations; Self organization

Indexed keywords

TOXIC SUBSTANCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIMULATION; TYPE IV PILI; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FIMBRIA; FLAGELLUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84919385356     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414661111     Document Type: Article

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