Quorum sensing has an unexpected role in virulence in the model pathogen Citrobacter rodentium

EMBO Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 698-703

  Coulthrust, Sarah J ^a   Clare, Simon ^b   Evans, Terry J ^a   Foulds, Ian J ^a   Roberts, Kevin J ^a   Welch, Martin ^a   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNATE RECEPTOR PROTEIN; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEIN CROL; PROTEIN CROLR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DENSITY; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUTATION; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; QUORUM SENSING; SOLVENTS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447092010     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400984     Document Type: Article

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