Let LuxS speak up in AI-2 signaling

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 114-119

  De Keersmaecker, Sigrid C J ^a   Sonck, Kathleen ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; TRANSFER RNA;

BACTERIAL CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 33644872099     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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