Alcohol-based quorum sensing plays a role in adhesion and sliding motility of the yeast Debaryomyces hansenii

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 643-652

  Gori, Klaus ^a   Knudsen, Peter B ^b   Nielsen, Kristian F ^b   Arneborg, Nils ^a   Jespersen, Lene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Alcohol based quorum sensing; Biofilm formation; Debaryomyces hansenii; Sliding motility

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMMONIUM SULFATE; FARNESOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHOL;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SURFACE; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; FUNGAL STRAIN; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PH; QUORUM SENSING;

ALCOHOLS; BIOFILMS; CELL ADHESION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DEBAROMYCES; FARNESOL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; INDOLES; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; POLYSTYRENES; QUORUM SENSING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 80055014828     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2011.00755.x     Document Type: Article

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