Quorum sensing signaling molecules produced by reference and emerging soft-rot bacteria (Dickeya and Pectobacterium spp.)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Crépin, Alexandre ^a,b   Barbey, Corinne ^a   Beury Cirou, Amélie ^b,c   Hélias, Valérie ^d,e   Taupin, Laure ^f   Reverchon, Sylvie ^g   Nasser, William ^g   Faure, Denis ^c   Dufour, Alain ^f   Orange, Nicole ^a   Feuilloley, Marc ^a   Heurlier, Karin ^h   Burini, Jean François ^a   Latour, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b SIPRE Comité Nord Station de Recherche et de Création Variétale   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^d Fédération Nationale des Producteurs de Plants de Pomme de Terre Recherche Développement Promotion du Plant de Pomme de Terre FN3PT RD3PT   (France)

^e Universite Rennes 1   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INDOLEACETIC ACID; LACTONE; MESSENGER RNA; N (3 OXOHEXANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N (3 OXOOCTANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; QUINOLONE; SYNTHETASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; HOMOSERINE; INDOLE 3 ACETIC ACID SYNTHASE; INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID SYNTHASE; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; N (3 OXOHEXANOYL) 3 AMINODIHYDRO 2(3H) FURANONE; N OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N-(3-OXOHEXANOYL)-3-AMINODIHYDRO-2(3H)-FURANONE; N-OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BIOSENSOR; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICKEYA; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOASSAY; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM; QUORUM SENSING; TOBACCO; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; POTATO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HOMOSERINE; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; KINETICS; LACTONES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PECTOBACTERIUM; QUINOLONES; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84860006835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035176     Document Type: Article

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