A synthetic quorum sensing system reveals a potential private benefit for public good production in a biofilm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Fang ^a,b   Kwan, Anna ^a   Xu, Amy ^a   Süel, Gürol M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; ESTER; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYSTEINE; ESTERS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84941313443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132948     Document Type: Article

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