Identification and characterization of the HicAB toxin-antitoxin system in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Toxins

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Li, Gang ^a   Shen, Mengyu ^a   Lu, Shuguang ^a   Le, Shuai ^a   Tan, Yinling ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Zhao, Xia ^a   Shen, Wei ^a   Guo, Keke ^a   Yang, Yuhui ^a   Zhu, Hongbin ^a   Rao, Xiancai ^a   Hu, Fuquan ^a   Li, Ming ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofilm formation; HicAB; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Toxin antitoxin system; Virulence

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PLASMID VECTOR; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANTITOXIN SYSTEM HICAB; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84964277279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins8040113     Document Type: Article

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