Transcriptional profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm life cycle stages reveals dispersal-specific biomarkers
in closed systems. Furthermore, it allowed the identification of a subset of fourteen genes as transcriptional biomarkers of dispersal, which were used to build reporter plasmids as tools to determine the onset of dispersal.
Authors
- Jilong Qin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5867-6332)
- Makrina Totsika (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2468-0293)
- Xavier Bertran Forga
- Kathryn E. Fairfull-Smith
Institutions
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Institute of Infection and Immunity (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Published
- 2026-04-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2026.1826561
- Primary Topic
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00