A modular view of the diversity of cell-density-encoding schemes in bacterial quorum-sensing systems

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 266-277

  Drees, Bastian ^a   Reiger, Matthias ^b   Jung, Kirsten ^b   Bischofs, Ilka B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO;

EID: 84903961902     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.05.031     Document Type: Article

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