Molecular basis of in vivo biofilm formation by bacterial pathogens

HS Joo, M Otto - Chemistry & biology, 2012 - cell.com
Bacterial biofilms are involved in a multitude of serious chronic infections. In recent years,
modeling of biofilm infection in vitro has led to the identification of microbial determinants …

Microbial pathogenesis in cystic fibrosis: mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia

JR Govan, V Deretic - Microbiological reviews, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
Respiratory infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia play a
major role in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (CF). This review summarizes the latest …

Synthesis of multiple exoproducts in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is under the control of RhlR-RhlI, another set of regulators in strain PAO1 with homology to the …

JM Brint, DE Ohman - Journal of bacteriology, 1995 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 that were deficient in the ability to produce
proteases that degrade casein were detected among the survivors of chemical mutagenesis …

Role of Alginate O Acetylation in Resistance of Mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Opsonic Phagocytosis

GB Pier, F Coleman, M Grout, M Franklin… - Infection and …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Establishment and maintenance of chronic lung infections with mucoid Pseudomonas
aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) require that the bacteria avoid host defenses …

Effect of rpoS Mutation on the Stress Response and Expression of Virulence Factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

SJ Suh, L Silo-Suh, DE Woods, DJ Hassett… - Journal of …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
The sigma factor RpoS (ςS) has been described as a general stress response regulator that
controls the expression of genes which confer increased resistance to various stresses in …

Alginate production affects Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm development and architecture, but is not essential for biofilm formation

AP Stapper, G Narasimhan… - Journal of medical …, 2004 - microbiologyresearch.org
Extracellular polymers can facilitate the non-specific attachment of bacteria to surfaces and
hold together developing biofilms. This study was undertaken to qualitatively and …

Anaerobic killing of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa by acidified nitrite derivatives under cystic fibrosis airway conditions

SS Yoon, R Coakley, GW Lau… - The Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Mucoid, mucA mutant Pseudomonas aeruginosa cause chronic lung infections in cystic
fibrosis (CF) patients and are refractory to phagocytosis and antibiotics. Here we show that …

Mucoid-to-nonmucoid conversion in alginate-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa often results from spontaneous mutations in algT, encoding a putative alternate …

CA DeVries, DE Ohman - Journal of bacteriology, 1994 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mucoid phenotype is common among strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that cause
chronic pulmonary infections in patients with cystic fibrosis and is due to overproduction of …

CpG motifs in bacterial DNA cause inflammation in the lower respiratory tract.

DA Schwartz, TJ Quinn, PS Thorne… - The Journal of …, 1997 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Since unmethylated CpG motifs are more frequent in DNA from bacteria than vertebrates,
and the unmethylated CpG motif has recently been reported to have stimulatory effects on …

[图书][B] Plant tissue culture, development, and biotechnology

RN Trigiano, DJ Gray - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Under the vast umbrella of Plant Sciences resides a plethora of highly specialized fields.
Botanists, agronomists, horticulturists, geneticists, and physiologists each employ a different …