Bacterial behaviors associated with the quorum-sensing peptide pheromone ('alarmone') in streptococci

Future Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 593-605

  Dufour, Delphine ^a   Lévesque, Céline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

bacteriocins; biofilms; competence; CSP pheromone; persisters; programmed cell death; quorum sensing; streptococci; stress survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIOCIN; CSP 14 PEPTIDE; CSP 16 PEPTIDE; CSP 17 PEPTIDE; CSP 19 PEPTIDE; CSP 21 PEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; SALIVARIUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CRISTATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INFANTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PARASANGUINIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; STREPTOCOCCUS VESTIBULARIS;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOUTH; PHEROMONES; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84877253455     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.13.23     Document Type: Review

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