Bacterial quorum sensing, cooperativity, and anticipation of stationary-phase stress

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 19775-19780

  Goo, Eunhye ^a   Majerczyk, Charlotte D ^b   An, Jae Hyung ^a   Chandler, Josephine R ^b   Seo, Young Su ^c   Ham, Hyeonheui ^a   Lim, Jae Yun ^a   Kim, Hongsup ^a   Lee, Bongsoo ^a   Jang, Moon Sun ^a   Greenberg, E Peter ^b   Hwang, Ingyu ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Burkholderia carrying capacity; Cell death; Glumae; Pseudomallei; Thailandensis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; OXALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CELL METABOLISM; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUORUM SENSING; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

BURKHOLDERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTATION; OXALATES; QUORUM SENSING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84870324875     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218092109     Document Type: Article

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