Quorum sensing in escherichia coli: Interkingdom, inter- and intraspecies dialogues, and a suicide-inducing peptide

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 85-99

  Zohar, Bloom Ackermann ^a   Kolodkin Gal, Ilana ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

E. COLI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GUT BACTERIA; INDUCING PEPTIDES; POPULATION DENSITIES; QUORUM-SENSING;

GENE EXPRESSION;

EID: 84943412429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1982-8__9     Document Type: Chapter

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