The genetic basis for the commitment to chronic versus acute infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Mol Cell. 2004 Nov 19;16(4):497-8. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2004.11.009.

Abstract

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes both acute and chronic airway infections. In a recent issue of Developmental Cell, Goodman et al. (2004) show that the RetS two-component gene regulatory module inversely controls expression of genes associated with acute and chronic infection.

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Chronic Disease
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
  • Genes, Bacterial
  • Genes, Regulator
  • Mutation
  • Pseudomonas Infections / genetics*
  • Pseudomonas Infections / microbiology
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics*
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / pathogenicity*
  • Signal Transduction