Gelatinase biosynthesis-activating pheromone: A peptide lactone that mediates a quorum sensing in Enterococcus faecalis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 145-154

  Nakayama, Jiro ^a,b   Cao, Yong ^a   Horii, Takaaki ^a   Sakuda, Shohei ^a   Akkermans, Antoon D L ^b   De Vos, Willem M ^b   Nagasawa, Hiromichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE; HYDROXYL GROUP; LACTONE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SERINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DENSITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GELATINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LACTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHEROMONES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034946367     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02486.x     Document Type: Article

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