Dueling quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa control the production of the Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-34

  McGrath, Stephen ^a,b   Wade, Dana S ^a   Pesci, Everett C ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

PQS; pqsA; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

2 HEPTYL 3 HYDROXY 4 QUINOLONE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LAS PROTEIN; N (3 OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N (BUTANOLYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RHL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0346492813     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00849-8     Document Type: Article

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