The virtue of temperance: Built-in negative regulators of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1060-1070

  Venturi, Vittorio ^a   Rampioni, Giordano ^b   Pongor, Sándor ^a   Leoni, Livia ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RSAL; PROTEIN RSAM; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FUSCOVAGINAE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUORUM SENSING; RSAL GENE; RSAM GENE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 82155166246     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07890.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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