Quorum sensing in Cyanobacteria: N-octanoyl-homoserine lactone release and response, by the epilithic colonial cyanobacterium Gloeothece PCC6909

ISME Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1171-1182

  Sharif, Dilara I ^a   Gallon, John ^a   Smith, Chris J ^a   Dudley, Ed ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; N OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N-OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEOMICS; QUORUM SENSING; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; PROTEOMICS; QUORUM SENSING;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CYANOBACTERIA; GLOEOTHECE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 57349094457     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2008.68     Document Type: Article

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