A quorum-sensing system that regulates Streptococcus pneumoniae biofilm formation and surface polysaccharide production

mSphere

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Junges, Roger ^a   Salvadori, Gabriela ^a   Shekhar, Sudhanshu ^a   Åmdal, Heidi A ^a   Periselneris, Jimstan N ^b   Chen, Tsute ^c   Brown, Jeremy S ^b   Petersen, Fernanda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Cell signaling; Mutagenesis; Natural transformation systems, polysaccharides, quorum sensing; Rgg; Shp; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041539694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00324-17     Document Type: Article

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