Quorum sensing biosensors

Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching: A Battle with no end in Sight

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 171-183

  Rai, Navneet ^a   Rai, Rewa ^b   Venkatesh, K V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOSENSORS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULES;

BACTERIAL POPULATION; CELL-TO-CELL SIGNALING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE DETECTION; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; QUORUM-SENSING SYSTEMS; SIGNALING MOLECULES;

CELL SIGNALING;

EID: 84943405132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1982-8__16     Document Type: Chapter

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