Quorum sensing triggers the stochastic escape of individual cells from Pseudomonas putida biofilms

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cárcamo Oyarce, Gerardo ^a   Lumjiaktase, Putthapoom ^a   Kümmerli, Rolf ^a   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSURFACTANT; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HETEROGENEITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION SIZE; SIGNALING; STOCHASTICITY; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC ISLAND; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUORUM SENSING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; BIOFILMS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84922696357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6945     Document Type: Article

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