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[A comparative study of the inducing effect of homoserine lactone and hexylresorcinol on phenotypic dissociation in bacteria].
Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Margulis A B, Kolpakov A I, Il'inskaia O N
Abstract excerpt
It has been shown that the phenotypic dissociation of Bacillus subtilis SK1 and S. typhimurium TA100 is induced by hexylresorcinol, an exogenous non-species-specific autoregulator of pleiotropic action, which is genotoxic for both pro- and eukaryotes. Nongenotoxic homoserine lactone, a chemical analogue of cell-density-responsive species-specific regulators, does not induce bacterial dissociation. The phage...
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