A quorum-sensing system in the free-living photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 7530-7537

  Puskas, Agnes ^a   Greenberg, E P ^b   Kaplan, Samuel ^a   Schaefer, Amy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL POPULATION; COLONY FORMATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030671073     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.23.7530-7537.1997     Document Type: Article

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