Antagonistic self-sensing and mate-sensing signaling controls antibiotic-resistance transfer

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

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 7086-7090

  Chatterjee, Anushree ^a   Cook, Laura C C ^b   Shu, Che Chi ^a,c   Chen, Yuqing ^b   Manias, Dawn A ^b   Ramkrishna, Doraiswami ^c   Dunny, Gary M ^b   Hu, Wei Shou ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; QUORUM SENSING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX ATTRACTANTS; TETRACYCLINE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 84876828969     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212256110     Document Type: Article

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