The effect of a cell-to-cell communication molecule, Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS), produced by p. aeruginosa on other bacterial species

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Toyofuku, Masanori ^a   Nakajima Kambe, Toshiaki ^a   Uchiyama, Hiroo ^a   Nomura, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell to cell communication; Interspecies interaction; Pseudomonas quinolone signal

Indexed keywords

2 HEPTYL 3 HYDROXY 4 QUINOLONE; 2-HEPTYL-3-HYDROXY-4-QUINOLONE; BACTERIAL DNA; IRON; OXYGEN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN; QUINOLONES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77349091828     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME09156     Document Type: Article

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