Regulation of gene expression by cell-to-cell communication: Acyl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2001, Pages 439-468

  Fuqua, C ^a   Parsek, M R ^a   Greenberg, E P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acylated homoserine lactones; Bacterial communication; Intercellular signaling; Multicellularity; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE;

ACYLATION; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOTILITY; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035675837     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.35.102401.090913     Document Type: Review

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