Microbial Telesensing: Probing the Environment for Friends, Foes, and Food

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-124

  Roux, Agnès ^a,b   Payne, Shelley M ^c   Gilmore, Michael S ^a,b  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; IRON; PHEROMONE; SIDEROPHORE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURFACE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 68349136799     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2009.07.004     Document Type: Review

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