Production of N-acyl-L-homoserine lactones by P. aeruginosa isolates from chronic lung infections associated with cystic fibrosis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-278

  Geisenberger, Otto ^a   Givskov, Michael ^b   Riedel, Kathrin ^a   Høiby, Niels ^c   Tümmler, Burkhard ^d   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d Zentrum Biochem Zentrum K   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burkholderia cepacia; Cystic fibrosis; N Acyl homoserine lactone; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE;

ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034653764     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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