Cell-cell communication in gram-positive bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue , 1997, Pages 527-564

  Dunny, Gary M ^a   Leonard, Bettina A B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 component system; Gene regulation; Oligopeptide parmease; Pheromone; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTINORHODINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NISIN; PHEROMONE; STREPTOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; NISIN; PHEROMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS;

EID: 0030792814     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.51.1.527     Document Type: Review

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