Integration of Metabolic and Quorum Sensing Signals Governing the Decision to Cooperate in a Bacterial Social Trait

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Boyle, Kerry E ^a,b   Monaco, Hilary ^b,c   van Ditmarsch, Dave ^b   Deforet, Maxime ^b   Xavier, Joao B ^a,b,c  

^a Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Tri Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; LIPIDS; METABOLISM; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DYNAMIC REGULATION; MOLECULAR MECHANISM; MULTICELLULAR COMMUNITIES; MULTICELLULAR SYSTEMS; PROMOTER ACTIVITIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM-SENSING; RHAMNOLIPIDS; SENSING SIGNALS; UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS;

NUTRIENTS;

NITROGEN; RHAMNOLIPID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IRON; LIPID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL SOCIAL TRAIT; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OPERON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RHIAB GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOOD; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOFTWARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMASS; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IRON; KINETICS; LIPIDS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84953207186     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004279     Document Type: Article

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