Mining quorum sensing regulated proteins - Role of bacterial cell-to-cell communication in global gene regulation as assessed by proteomics

Proteomics

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3070-3085

  Eberl, Leo ^a   Riedel, Katharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Microbiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 D PAGE; Cell to cell communication; Comparative proteome analyses; Global regulatory system; Microbiology; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BAPA PROTEIN; ENTEROCHELIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PROTEOME; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SALMOCHELIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AZOSPIRILLUM LIPOFERUM; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG TARGETING; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UBIQUITINATION;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOMICS; QUORUM SENSING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79960386267     PISSN: 16159853     EISSN: 16159861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201000814     Document Type: Review

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