Involvement of N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone autoinducers in controlling the multicellular behaviour of Serratia liquefaciens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-136

  Eberl, Leo ^a   Winson, Michael K ^b   Sternberg, Claus ^a   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^b   Christiansen, Gunna ^c   Chhabra, Siri Ram ^b   Bycroft, Barrie ^b   Williams, Paul ^b   Molin, Søren ^a   Givskov, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CULTURE MEDIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PHENOTYPE; SERRATIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0029670074     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02495.x     Document Type: Article

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