Candida albicans Inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence through Suppression of Pyochelin and Pyoverdine Biosynthesis

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Lopez Medina, Eduardo ^a,f   Fan, Di ^a   Coughlin, Laura A ^a   Ho, Evi X ^a   Lamont, Iain L ^b   Reimmann, Cornelia ^c   Hooper, Lora V ^a,d   Koh, Andrew Y ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOTOXIN A; FARNESOL; IRON; PSEUDOMONAS EXOTOXIN; PYOCHELIN; PYOVERDINE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY ASSAY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; IRON DEPLETION; IRON SUPPLEMENTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; C3H MOUSE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FARNESOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IRON; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHENOLS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; THIAZOLES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84940748160     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005129     Document Type: Article

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