Article
Construction and analysis of a Mannheimia haemolytica A1 luxS mutant.
Veterinary microbiology - 30 Sept 2005
van der Vinne Amanda N, Lo Reggie Y C, Shewen Patricia E
Abstract excerpt
Mannheimia haemolytica A1 is the causative agent of bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis, a major cause of sickness, death, and economic loss to the feedlot cattle industry. M. haemolytica A1 produces autoinducer-2 (AI-2) like molecules that are capable of inducing quorum sensing system 2 of Vibrio harveyi. This interspecies quorum sensing system has been shown to regulate the expression of virulence genes in several...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Carbon-Sulfur Lyases
- Cattle
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Luminescent Measurements
- Mannheimia haemolytica
- Mutation
- Pasteurellosis, Pneumonic