Quorum-sensing-directed protein expression in Serratia proteamaculans B5a

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 471-483

  Christensen, Allan B ^a   Riedel, Kathrin ^b   Eberl, Leo ^b   Flodgaard, Lars R ^a   Molin, Søren ^a   Gram, Lone ^a   Givskov, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CELL PROTEIN; CHITIN; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SPOILAGE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; LIPOLYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SERRATIA PROTEAMACULANS; VEGETABLE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SALMON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERRATIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PANTOEA; PANTOEA STEWARTII; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SERRATIA PROTEAMACULANS;

EID: 0345701457     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25575-0     Document Type: Review

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