Interactions among Quorum Sensing Inhibitors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Anand, Rajat ^a   Rai, Navneet ^a,b   Thattai, Mukund ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; LUXI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DENSITY; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AGONISTS; ALGORITHM; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84876515085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062254     Document Type: Article

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