Quorum sensing: Cell-to-cell communication in bacteria

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 21, Issue , 2005, Pages 319-346

  Waters, Christopher M ^a   Bassler, Bonnie L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoinducer; Quorum quenching; Regulon

Indexed keywords

AUTOINDUCER PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BEHAVIOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CONTACT; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COEXISTENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 27944442272     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.21.012704.131001     Document Type: Review

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