QsIA disrupts LasR dimerization in antiactivation of bacterial quorum sensing

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

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20765-20770

  Fan, Hui ^a   Dong, Yihu ^a   Wu, Donghui ^a   Bowler, Matthew W ^b,c   Zhang, Lianhui ^a   Song, Haiwei ^a,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cell cell communication; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; QS LASR SPECIFIC ANTIACTIVATOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LASR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RECEPTOR BINDING;

EID: 84890816978     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314415110     Document Type: Article

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