Listening in on bacteria: Acyl-homoserine lactone signalling

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 685-695

  Fuqua, Clay ^a   Greenberg, E Peter ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSENSOR; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOTERRORISM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0036731699     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm907     Document Type: Review

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