Quorum sensing and Chromobacterium violaceum: Exploitation of violacein production and inhibition for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3703-3711

  McClean, Kay H ^a   Winson, Michael K ^a,b   Fish, Leigh ^a   Taylor, Adrian ^a   Chhabra, Siri Ram ^a   Camara, Miguel ^a   Daykin, Mavis ^a   Lamb, John H ^c   Swift, Simon ^a   Bycroft, Barrie W ^a   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^a   Williams, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Chromobacterium violaceum; N acylhomoserine lactones; Quorum sensing; Violacein

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; PIGMENT; THIOLACTONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOASSAY; BIOSENSOR; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHROMOBACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031467411     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-12-3703     Document Type: Article

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