Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system regulates detection and processing of the quorum sensing signal autoinducer-2

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 93-104

  Pereira, Catarina S ^a,b   Santos, António J M ^a,d   Bejerano Sagie, Michal ^a,e   Correia, Paulo B ^a   Marques, Joao C ^a,c   Xavier, Karina B ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^c CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOINDUCER 2; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN LSRK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUORUM SENSING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; MUTATION; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); QUORUM SENSING; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84858861493     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08010.x     Document Type: Article

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