Acyl-homoserine lactone acylase from Ralstonia strain XJ12B represents a novel and potent class of quorum-quenching enzymes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 849-860

  Lin, Yi Han ^a   Xu, Jin Ling ^a   Hu, Jiangyong ^a   Wang, Lian Hui ^a   Leong Ong, Say ^a   Renton Leadbetter, Jared ^b   Zhang, Lian Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACULEACIN A; AMIDASE; AMIDE; AMINO ACID; CEPHALOSPORIN; ELASTASE; FATTY ACID; HOMOSERINE; HYDROLASE; LACTONE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN AIID; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PYOCYANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOPLANES UTAHENSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCACEAE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROLYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINOPLANES; ACTINOPLANES UTAHENSIS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCACEAE; DEINOCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA SP.;

EID: 0037238544     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03351.x     Document Type: Article

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