Autoinducer 2 activity in Escherichia coli culture supernatants can be actively reduced despite maintenance of an active synthase, LuxS

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 715-728

  Hardie, Kim R ^a,b   Cooksley, Clare ^a   Green, Andrew D ^a,b   Winzer, Klaus ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ARABINOSE; AUTOINDUCER 2; CARBON; CITRIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP; EPIMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GLYCOLYTIC ENZYME; LACTOSE; MALTOSE; POLYMER; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBOSE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON STORAGE; CATABOLISM; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SUPERNATANT; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037352574     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25853-0     Document Type: Review

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