Quorum quenching strategy targeting gram-positive pathogenic bacteria

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 901, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Singh, Ravindra Pal ^a   Desouky, Said E ^a,b   Nakayama, Jiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Assiut Branch   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Autoinducing peptide (AIP); Gram positive bacteria; Quorum quenching (QQ); Quorum sensing (QS)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARTHOAMIDE; AVELLANIN C; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BENZBROMARONE; CEFALOTIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLODEPSIPEPTIDE; DIFLUNISAL; HAMAMELITANNIN; IMIPENEM; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NAFCILLIN; OMEGA HYDROXYEMODIN; RNA III INHIBITING PEPTIDE; SAVIRIN; SIAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRR PROTEIN; VIRS PROTEIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGR GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FSR GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; QUORUM SENSING;

EID: 84990223696     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/5584_2016_1     Document Type: Chapter

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