Quorum sensing controls biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae through modulation of cyclic Di-GMP levels and repression of vpsT

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2527-2536

  Waters, Christopher M ^a,b   Lu, Wenyun ^a   Rabinowitz, Joshua D ^a   Bassler, Bonnie L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN HAPR; PROTEIN VPST; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BINDING KINETICS; BIOFILM; CELL DENSITY; CELL LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EPISTASIS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; REDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CYCLIC GMP; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; QUORUM SENSING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 41549091882     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01756-07     Document Type: Article

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