Utilization of Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Signals for Growth by a Soil Pseudomonad and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5941-5949

  Huang, Jean J ^a   Han, Jong In ^a   Zhang, Lian Hui ^b,c   Leadbetter, Jared R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BACTERIA; GENES; IONIZATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RNA;

QUORUM-SENSING SIGNALS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

3 OXODODECANOYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE; ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE ACYLASE; AMIDASE; HOMOSERINE; HOMOSERINE LACTONE LACTONASE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMIDOHYDROLASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA;

EID: 0142040878     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.10.5941-5949.2003     Document Type: Article

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