Communication with a growing family: Diffusible signal factor (DSF) signaling in bacteria

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 145-152

  Ryan, Robert P ^a   Dow, J Maxwell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIFFUSIBLE SIGNAL FACTOR; LAURIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN RPFC; PROTEIN RPFG; SATURATED FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOASSAY; BIOFILM; BIOINFORMATICS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PROTEIN KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 79952104977     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.12.003     Document Type: Review

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