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Title:

Pyocyanin Restricts Social Cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Castañeda-Tamez, Paulina; Ramírez-Peris, Jimena; Pérez-Velázquez, Judith; Kuttler, Christina; Jalalimanesh, Ammar; Saucedo-Mora, Miguel Á.; Jiménez-Cortés, J. Guillermo; Maeda, Toshinari; González, Yael; Tomás, María; Wood, Thomas K.; García-Contreras, Rodolfo
Abstract:
Quorum sensing (QS) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa coordinates the expression of virulence factors, such as exoproteases and siderophores, that are public goods utilized by the whole population of bacteria, regardless of whether they invested or not in their production. These public goods can be used by QS defective mutants for growth and since these mutants do not contribute to public goods production, they are considered social cheaters. Pyocyanin is a phenazine that is a toxic, QS-controlled metab...     »
Journal title:
Frontiers in Microbiology
Year:
2018
Journal volume:
9
Pages contribution:
1348
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01348
Print-ISSN:
1664-302X
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