Bacterial quorum-sensing network architectures

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue , 2009, Pages 197-222

  Ng, Wai Leung ^a   Bassler, Bonnie L ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoinducers; Feedback regulation; Signal transduction; Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

AUTOINDUCER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; PROTEIN CQSA; PROTEIN LUXM; REGULATOR PROTEIN; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 73349114916     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-102108-134304     Document Type: Review

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