N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone autoinducers control production of an extracellular lipopeptide biosurfactant required for swarming motility of Serratia liquefaciens MG1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 6384-6388

  Lindum, P W ^a   Anthoni, U ^b   Christophersen, C ^b   Eberl, L ^c   Molin, S ^a   Givskov, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; LIPOPEPTIDE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA; TRANSPOSON;

PROKARYOTA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA LIQUEFACIENS;

EID: 0031755841     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.23.6384-6388.1998     Document Type: Article

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