Generic Metric to Quantify Quorum Sensing Activation Dynamics

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 220-227

  Pai, Anand ^a,c,d   Srimani, Jaydeep K ^a   Tanouchi, Yu ^a,e   You, Lingchong ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial communication; quorum sensing; sensing metric; signaling kinetics; synthetic circuits

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CONTROL SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84899020101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb400069w     Document Type: Article

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