Quorum sensing: An emerging target for antibacterial chemotherapy?

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-274

  Williams, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacterial infection; Cell cell communication; N acylhomoserine lactones; Quorum sensing; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL RNA; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; EXOPEPTIDASE; FATTY ACID ESTER; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLAMINO ACID; PROTEIN KINASE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; SINEFUNGIN; THIOLACTONE; TRICLOSAN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; HOST RESISTANCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; DIFFUSION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RESISTANCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMOSERINE; HUMANS; LACTONES; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DENSITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0036078896     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.6.3.257     Document Type: Review

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