Article
Bacteria-host communication: the language of hormones.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Jul 2003
Sperandio Vanessa, Torres Alfredo G, Jarvis Bruce, Nataro James P, Kaper James B
Abstract excerpt
The interbacterial communication system known as quorum sensing (QS) utilizes hormone-like compounds referred to as autoinducers to regulate bacterial gene expression. Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) serotype O157:H7 is the agent responsible for outbreaks of bloody diarrhea in several countries. We previously proposed that EHEC uses a QS regulatory system to "sense" that it is within the intestine and...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Carbon-Sulfur Lyases
- Epinephrine
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Escherichia coli O157
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- HeLa Cells
- Homoserine
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Lactones
- Mutation