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ORGANISM(S): Pseudomonas aeruginosa
SUBMITTER: Thomas Wood
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-29665 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Sheng Lili L Pu Mingming M Hegde Manjunath M Zhang Yuanxing Y Jayaraman Arul A Wood Thomas K TK
Microbial biotechnology 20120313 4
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is becoming recognized as an important pathogen in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Here we demonstrate that adenosine, derived from hydrolysis of ATP from the eucaryotic host, is a potent interkingdom signal in the GI tract for this pathogen. The addition of adenosine nearly abolished P. aeruginosa biofilm formation and abolished swarming by preventing production of rhamnolipids. Since the adenosine metabolite inosine did not affect biofilm formation and since a mutant un ...[more]