Artificially constructed quorum-sensing circuits are used for subtle control of bacterial population density

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Zhaoshou ^a   Wu, Xin ^a   Peng, Jianghai ^a   Hu, Yidan ^a   Fang, Baishan ^a   Huang, Shiyang ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DEATH; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; QUORUM SENSING;

ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; BINDING SITES; CELL DEATH; DNA PRIMERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84905972176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104578     Document Type: Article

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