Quorum sensing by peptide pheromones and two-component signal- transduction systems in Gram-positive bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 895-904

  Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a   Quadri, Luis E N ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a,c  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; PHEROMONE;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DENSITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030814729     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4251782.x     Document Type: Article

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