Stationary-Phase Quorum-Sensing Signals Affect Autoinducer-2 and Gene Expression in Escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2038-2043

  Ren, Dacheng ^a,c   Bedzyk, Laura A ^b   Ye, Rick W ^b   Thomas, Stuart M ^b   Wood, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

EXPONENTIAL-PHASE CELLS; QUORUM-SENSING SIGNALS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AUTOINDUCER 2 PROTEIN; BTUB PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; INDOLE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN C; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN ARGT; PROTEIN NUPC; PROTEIN PHOA; PROTEIN PHOB; PROTEIN PHOU; PROTEIN TNAA; PROTEIN TNAL; PTSA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUPERNATANT; VIBRIO;

BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIBRIO;

EID: 4644277087     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2038-2043.2004     Document Type: Article

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