Making 'sense' of metabolism: Autoinducer-2, LuxS and pathogenic bacteria

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 383-396

  Vendeville, Agnès ^a   Winzer, Klaus ^b   Heurlier, Karin ^b   Tang, Christoph M ^a   Hardie, Kim R ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DENSITY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; METHIONINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 17844389564     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1146     Document Type: Review

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