Census and consensus in bacterial ecosystems: The LuxR-LuxI family of quorum-sensing transcriptional regulators

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 727-751

  Fuqua, Clay ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^b   Greenberg, E Peter ^c  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

cell density dependence; lux gene regulation; LuxR LuxI proteins; quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0029818809     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.727     Document Type: Review

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