Bifidobacteria exhibit LuxS-dependent autoinducer 2 activity and biofilm formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Zhongke ^a   He, Xiang ^b   Brancaccio, Vincenzo F ^a   Yuan, Jing ^b   Riedel, Christian U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; LUXS GENE; NONHUMAN; PH; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOFILMS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84895526722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088260     Document Type: Article

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