The DSF Family of Cell–Cell Signals: An Expanding Class of Bacterial Virulence Regulators

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Ryan, Robert P ^a   An, Shi qi ^a   Allan, John H ^a   McCarthy, Yvonne ^b   Dow, J Maxwell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSIBLE SIGNAL FACTOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. CAMPESTRIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 84938771395     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004986     Document Type: Article

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