A Primed Subpopulation of Bacteria Enables Rapid Expression of the Type 3 Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

mBio (Jun 2021)

Affiliations

Christina K. Lin: Medical Scientist Training Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Daniel S. W. Lee: Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saria McKeithen-Mead: Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Thierry Emonet: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Barbara Kazmierczak: ORCiD; Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Abstract

The expression of specific virulence traits is strongly associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa