Cross-regulation by CrcZ RNA controls anoxic biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Pusic, Petra ^a   Tata, Muralidhar ^a   Wolfinger, Michael T ^a,b   Sonnleitner, Elisabeth ^a   Häussler, Susanne ^c   Bläsi, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBON; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; OXYGEN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOFILM; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CARBON; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NAD; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85006971076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep39621     Document Type: Article

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