The DSF type quorum sensing signalling system RpfF/R regulates diverse phenotypes in the opportunistic pathogen Cronobacter

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Suppiger, Angela ^a   Eshwar, Athmanya Konegadde ^a   Stephan, Roger ^a   Kaever, Volkhard ^b   Eberl, Leo ^a   Lehner, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRONOBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUORUM SENSING; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CRONOBACTER; CYCLIC GMP; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHENOTYPE; QUORUM SENSING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84952936610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep18753     Document Type: Article

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