Quorum quenching in cultivable bacteria from dense marine coastal microbial communities

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-217

  Romero, Manuel ^a   Martin Cuadrado, Ana Belen ^b   Roca Rivada, Arturo ^a   Cabello, Ana María ^a   Otero, Ana ^a  

^a Facultad de Biologia   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acylase; AHL; Lactonase; Marine bacteria; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; COASTAL ZONE; CULTIVATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIUM; CHROMOBACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOBACTERIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 78650790852     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01011.x     Document Type: Article

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