Quorum-sensing cross talk: Isolation and chemical characterization of cyclic dipeptides from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Gram-negative bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1254-1266

  Holden, Matthew T G ^a   Chhabra, Siri Ram ^a   De Nys, Rocky ^b   Stead, Paul ^a,e   Bainton, Nigel J ^a,f   Hill, Philip J ^a   Manefield, Mike ^b   Kumar, Naresh ^b   Labatte, Maurice ^b   England, Dacre ^b   Rice, Scott ^b   Givskov, Mike ^c   Salmond, George P C ^d   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^a,e   Bycroft, Barrie W ^a   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^b   Williams, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDE; PIPERAZINEDIONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOSENSOR; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS ALCALIGENES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELL COMMUNICATION; DIPEPTIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032875021     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01577.x     Document Type: Article

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