luxS in bacteria isolated from 25- to 40-million-year-old amber

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-124

  Santiago Rodriguez, Tasha M ^a,b   Patrício, Ana R ^a,c   Rivera, Jessica I ^a   Coradin, Mariel ^a   Gonzalez, Alfredo ^a   Tirado, Gabriela ^a   Cano, Raúl J ^d   Toranzos, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient bacteria; Autoinducer 2; Bacterial communication; luxS; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMBER MUTANT; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EXTANT SPECIES; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; LUMINESCENCE; LUXS GENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO HARVEYI;

ANCIENT BACTERIA; AUTOINDUCER-2; BACTERIAL COMMUNICATION; LUXS; QUORUM SENSING;

AMBER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; PHYLOGENY; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO;

EID: 84891829954     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12275     Document Type: Letter

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