Bacterial communication ("quorum sensing") via ligands and receptors: A novel pharmacologic target for the design of antibiotic drugs

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 417-423

  Raffa, Robert B ^a   Iannuzzo, Joseph R ^a   Levine, Diana R ^a   Saeid, Kamal K ^a   Schwartz, Rachel C ^a   Sucic, Nicholas T ^a   Terleckyj, Oksana D ^a   Young, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; FURANONE DERIVATIVE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN LUXI; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RNA; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZWITTERMICIN A;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOFILM; CHEMOTAXIS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENE CONTROL; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; SENSIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; DRUG DESIGN; LIGANDS; RECEPTORS, DRUG; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 13244269901     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.104.075150     Document Type: Review

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