Acyl-homoserine lactone-based quorum sensing in the Roseobacter clade: Complex cell-to-cell communication controls multiple physiologies

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Cude, W Nathan ^a   Buchan, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyl homoserine lactones; Biogeochemical cycles; Marine bacteria; Quorum sensing; Roseobacter

Indexed keywords

ADENYLOSUCCINATE LYASE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BUTYRYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; HELICASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PHOTOPROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSPOSASE; TROPODITHIETIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION DENSITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUORUM SENSING; ROSEOBACTER; ROSEOBACTER CLADE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84890268397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00336     Document Type: Article

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