Synthetic quorum-sensing circuit to control consortial biofilm formation and dispersal in a microfluidic device

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hong, Seok Hoon ^a   Hegde, Manjunath ^a   Kim, Jeongyun ^a   Wang, Xiaoxue ^a   Jayaraman, Arul ^a   Wood, Thomas K ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL TYPE; COLONIZER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSER CELL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; ACTINOBACILLUS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TIME;

ARABINOSE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HHA PROTEIN, E COLI; PEPTONE; TRYPTONES; YJGI PROTEIN, E COLI;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ARABINOSE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; PEPTONES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; QUORUM SENSING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863011639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1616     Document Type: Article

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