Implications of rewiring bacterial quorum sensing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 437-445

  Haseltine, Eric L ^a   Arnold, Frances H ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PATHOGENS;

CELL-CELL COMMUNICATION; QUORUM SENSING; SYNTHETIC GENE CIRCUITS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LUX GENE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POPULATION DENSITY; QUORUM SENSING; STEADY STATE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO;

EID: 38349096406     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01688-07     Document Type: Article

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