Quorum sensing signal production and microbial interactions in a polymicrobial disease of corals and the coral surface mucopolysaccharide layer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Zimmer, Beth L ^a,b   May, Amanda L ^b   Bhedi, Chinmayee D ^a   Dearth, Stephen P ^b   Prevatte, Carson W ^b   Pratte, Zoe ^a   Campagna, Shawn R ^b   Richardson, Laurie L ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; 4,5-DIHYDROXY-2,3-PENTANEDIONE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; N-OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PENTANE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLACK BAND DISEASE; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; DIPLORIA STRIGOSA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH STIMULATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONTASTRAEA CAVERNOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO ROTIFERIANUS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOBACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRIO;

ANTHOZOA;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CHROMOBACTERIUM; CORAL REEFS; CYANOBACTERIA; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PENTANES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO;

EID: 84907485585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108541     Document Type: Article

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