LuxS and Autoinducer-2: Their Contribution to Quorum Sensing and Metabolism in Bacteria

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2003, Pages 291-396

  Winzer, Klaus ^a   Hardie, Kim R ^a   Williams, Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOINDUCER 2 PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BORIC ACID; BORON; GENE PRODUCT; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; LUXS GENE; NONHUMAN; PFS GENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0347481393     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2164(03)53009-X     Document Type: Article

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