A quorum-quenching approach to investigate the conservation of quorum-sensing-regulated functions within the Burkholderia cepacia complex

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1579-1587

  Wopperer, Julia ^a   Cardona, Silvia T ^b   Huber, Birgit ^c   Jacobi, Christoph A ^d   Valvano, Miguel A ^b   Eberl, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOREMEDIATION; PATHOLOGY; PLANT CELL CULTURE; QUENCHING;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTION; PROTEASES; QUORUM-SENSING-REGULATED FUNCTIONS;

BIOCONTROL;

LACTONE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOREMEDIATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAXONOMY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33144477202     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.2.1579-1587.2006     Document Type: Article

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