Influence of the alginate production on cell-to-cell communication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 239-249

  Yang, Jiayue ^a   Toyofuku, Masanori ^a,b   Sakai, Ryosuke ^a   Nomura, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-HEPTYL-3-HYDROXY-4-QUINOLONE; ALGINIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; HOMOSERINE LACTONE; MUCA PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ALGINATES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUINOLONES; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85015319391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12521     Document Type: Article

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