Quorum sensing primes the oxidative stress response in the insect endosymbiont, Sodalis glossinidius

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Pontes, Mauricio H ^a   Babst, Markus ^a   Lochhead, Robert ^a   Oakeson, Kelly ^a   Smith, Kari ^a   Dale, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GENE PRODUCT; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N (3 OXOHEXANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN CARA; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOGR1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOGR2; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; SITOPHILUS ORYZAE; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WEEVIL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; SITOPHILUS ORYZAE; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS;

ANIMALS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; QUORUM SENSING; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 56149106746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003541     Document Type: Article

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