Current topics in signal transduction in bacteria

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 211-227

  Hellingwerf, Klaas J ^a   Crielaard, Wim C ^a   Teixeira De Mattos, M Joost ^a   Hoff, Wouter D ^a,b   Kort, Remco ^a   Verhamme, Daniel T ^a   Avignone Rossa, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoinducers; Cascades; Homoserine lactones; Networks; Phosphoryl transfer; Photoactive yellow protein; Photoreceptors; Prokaryotes; Quorum sensing; Regulators; Sensors; Signal transduction; Two component systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTONE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA; HOMOSERINE; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032463483     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001738419877     Document Type: Article

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