Making sense of quorum sensing in lactobacilli: A special focus on Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3939-3947

  Sturme, Mark H J ^a,b   Francke, Christof ^a,d   Siezen, Roland J ^a,c,d   de Vos, Willem M ^a,b   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a,b,c  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; THIOLACTONE;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTENT ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN KINASES; QUORUM SENSING;

FIRMICUTES; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM;

EID: 37449022089     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/012831-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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