Non-thermal plasma exposure rapidly attenuates bacterial AHL-dependent quorum sensing and virulence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Flynn, Padrig B ^a   Busetti, Alessandro ^a   Wielogorska, Ewa ^a   Chevallier, Olivier P ^a   Elliott, Christopher T ^a   Laverty, Garry ^a   Gorman, Sean P ^a   Graham, William G ^a   Gilmore, Brendan F ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; CHROMOBACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LETTUCE; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHARMACOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMA GAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; VIRULENCE;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHROMOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETTUCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMA GASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84973390676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26320     Document Type: Article

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