MEMBRANE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PSEUDOMONAS QUINOLONE SIGNAL MODULATES OUTER MEMBRANE VESICLE PRODUCTION IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA

Membrane Distribution of the Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal Modulates Outer Membrane Vesicle Production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

ABSTRACT The Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS) is an important quorum-sensing molecule in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that also mediates its own packaging and transport by stimulating outer membrane vesicle (OMV) formation.Because OMVs have been implicated in many virulence-associated behaviors, it is critical that we understand how they are formed.Our

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Possible Gender Differences in Classical Music, Flamenco and Fado

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose language, the sounds and silences, is organized in time with logic and sensitivity.Music as a whole is the result of an ancestral nonverbal and international mode of human expression and communication.The primitive and former mother-child bonding might be highly influenced and modulated by the music

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Protective Effects of Educational Attainment Against Cigarette Smoking; Diminished Returns of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the National Health Interview Survey

Introduction: Although educational attainment is protective against health risk behaviors such as smoking, the Minorities’ Diminished Return theory posits that these protective effects are smaller for ethnic minorities than majority groups.This study compared the effects of educational attainment on the smoking status of American Indian/Alaska Na

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