The exopolysaccharide Psl-eDNA interaction enables the formation of a biofilm skeleton in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 330-340

  Wang, Shiwei ^a   Liu, Xi ^a,b   Liu, Hongsheng ^c   Zhang, Li ^c   Guo, Yuan ^d   Yu, Shan ^a,b   Wozniak, Daniel J ^e   Ma, Luyan Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; DNA;

BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; DNA; HUMANS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84924798595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12252     Document Type: Article

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