Quorum Sensing Controls Adaptive Immunity through the Regulation of Multiple CRISPR-Cas Systems

Molecular Cell

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1102-1108

  Patterson, Adrian G ^a   Jackson, Simon A ^a   Taylor, Corinda ^a   Evans, Gary B ^b   Salmond, George P C ^c   Przybilski, Rita ^a   Staals, Raymond H J ^a   Fineran, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacterial communication; CRISPR Cas; horizontal gene transfer; phage resistance; quorum sensing; regulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL DENSITY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; QUORUM SENSING; SERRATIA; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; N-BUTYRYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERRATIA;

EID: 85006707424     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.11.012     Document Type: Article

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