Autoinducers Act as Biological Timers in Vibrio harveyi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Anetzberger, Claudia ^a   Reiger, Matthias ^a   Fekete, Agnes ^b,d   Schell, Ursula ^a   Stambrau, Nina ^a,e   Plener, Laure ^a   Kopka, Joachim ^c   Schmitt Kopplin, Phillippe ^b   Hilbi, Hubert ^a   Jung, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 AMINOUNDEC 2 ENE 4 ONE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; FURANOSYL BORATE DIESTER; N (3 HYDROXYBUTYRYL) HOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC REGULATION; GROWTH CURVE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUXR GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUORUM SENSING; STEADY STATE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO;

VIBRIO CAMPBELLII; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 84868089329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048310     Document Type: Article

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