Generation of cell-to-cell signals in quorum sensing: Acyl homoserine lactone synthase activity of a purified Vibrio fischeri LuxI protein

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 9505-9509

  Schaefer, Amy L ^a   Val, Dale L ^b   Hanzelka, Brian L ^a   Cronan Jr , John E ^b   Greenberg, E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

autoinduction; cell density dependent gene expression; lux genes

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LACTONE; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SYNTHETASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VIBRIO;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBON-SULFUR LIGASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LIGASES; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO;

EID: 0029817781     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.18.9505     Document Type: Article

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