Quorum sensing is accompanied by global metabolic changes in the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 197, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2072-2082

  Davenport, Peter W ^a   Griffin, Julian L ^a,b   Welch, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID ESTER; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; POLYAMINE; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOPROPANATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLITE; METABOLOME; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SUPERNATANT; WILD TYPE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; POLYAMINES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84929428271     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02557-14     Document Type: Article

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