Quorum sensing "flips" the acetate switch

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5735-5737

  Wolfe, Alan J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID;

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTE; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ACETATES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 50249177642     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00825-08     Document Type: Note

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