Identification of extracellular N-acylhomoserine lactone acylase from a Streptomyces sp. and its application to quorum quenching

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2632-2641

  Park, Sun Yang ^a   Kang, Hye Ok ^a,b   Jang, Hak Sun ^a   Lee, Jung Kee ^b   Koo, Bon Tag ^a   Yum, Do Young ^a  

^a inBioNET Corporation   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOILS;

LACTONE; PATHOGENIC BACTERIA; SOIL BACTERIA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ENZYMES;

AMIDASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; ELASTASE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ENZYME; IDENTIFICATION METHOD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEACYLATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HYDROLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RALSTONIA; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; STREPTOMYCES SP.;

EID: 18444375881     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2632-2641.2005     Document Type: Article

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