Quorum quenching in Agrobacterium tumefaciens: Chance or necessity?

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1123-1125

  White, Catharine E ^a   Finan, Turlough M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BLCC ENZYME; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GLUCONOLACTONASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PHEROMONE; SUCCINIC SEMIALDEHYDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AUTOINDUCER INACTIVATION GENE A; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BLCABC OPERON; BLCC GENE; CARBON SOURCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CROWN GALL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPERON; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLASMID; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM QUENCHING; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STARVATION; TI PLASMID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE;

EID: 60849136921     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01681-08     Document Type: Note

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