Arthrobacter strain VAI-A utilizes acyl-homoserine lactone inactivation products and stimulates quorum signal biodegradation by Variovorax paradoxus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 909-916

  Flagan, Suvi ^a   Ching, Weng Ki ^a   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; CELL CULTURE; GROWTH KINETICS;

QUORUM SENSING;

MICROBIOLOGY;

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; NITROGEN;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION;

ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH RATE; KINETICS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; QUORUM SIGNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ARTHROBACTER; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; VARIOVORAX PARADOXUS;

EID: 0037313333     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.2.909-916.2003     Document Type: Article

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