The Janthinobacterium sp. HH01 Genome Encodes a Homologue of the V. cholerae CqsA and L. pneumophila LqsA Autoinducer Synthases

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hornung, Claudia ^a   Poehlein, Anja ^b   Haack, Frederike S ^a   Schmidt, Martina ^a   Dierking, Katja ^c   Pohlen, Andrea ^c   Schulenburg, Hinrich ^c   Blokesch, Melanie ^d   Plener, Laure ^e   Jung, Kirsten ^e   Bonge, Andreas ^a   Krohn Molt, Ines ^a   Utpatel, Christian ^a   Timmermann, Gabriele ^a   Spieck, Eva ^a   Pommerening Röser, Andreas ^a   Bode, Edna ^f   Bode, Helge B ^f   Daniel, Rolf ^b   Schmeisser, Christel ^a   Streit, Wolfgang R ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; LUXI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; N-OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CQSA GENE; DELETION MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; JANTHINOBACTERIA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LQSA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXALOBACTERACEAE; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOFILM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; OXALOBACTERACEAE; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84873564976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055045     Document Type: Article

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