Thiopeptide antibiotics stimulate biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis

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

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3086-3091

  Bleich, Rachel ^a   Watrous, Jeramie D ^b,c,d   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^b,c,d   Bowers, Albert A ^a   Shank, Elizabeth A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of California San Diego   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Bacillus subtilis; Biofilm formation; Thiazolyl antibiotics; Thiopeptides

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; THIAZOYL PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; THIOCILLIN ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE; THIOCILLIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; ELECTROSPRAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOFILMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES;

EID: 84924322556     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414272112     Document Type: Article

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