Quorum sensing in bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 165-199

  Miller, M B ^a   Bassler, B L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoinducer; Cell cell communication; Homoserine lactone; Two component system; Virulence

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOFILM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034770056     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.165     Document Type: Review

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