Quorum quenching

Dong, Y.H., Gusti, AR, Zhang, Q., Xu, J.L., Zhang, L.H. Identification of quorum-quenching N-acyl homoserine lactonases from Bacillus species. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002 68 1754-1759. 

Chan KG, Atkinson S, Mathee K, Sam CK, Chhabra SR, Camara M, Koh CL, Williams P (2011) Characterization of N-acylhomoserine lactone-degrading bacteria associated with the Zingiber officinale (ginger) rhizosphere co-existence of quorum quenching and quorum sensing in Acinetobacter and Burkholderia. BMC Microbiol 11 51... 

Figure 2 Representative domain organization and structure of some proteins involved in cell-to-cell communication, (a) The AHL binding transcription factor TraR (b) Esal, a LuxI homologue and involved in AHL synthesis (c) LuxP, a pehplasmic protein binding AI-2 (d) LuxS, a protein involved in AI-2 synthesis (e) the quorum quenching enzyme AiiA.

Dong YH, Zhang LH Quorum sensing and quorum-quenching enzymes. J. Microbiol. 2005 43 101-109. 

Debler EW, Kaufmann GE, Kirchdoerfer RN, Mee JM, Janda KD, Wilson lA. Crystal structures of a quorum-quenching antibody. J. Mol. Biol. 2007 368 1392-1402. 

Wang, L.-H., Dong, Y.-H., and Zhang, L.-H. (2008). Quorum quenching Impad and mechanisms. In "Chemical Communication Among Bacteria", (S. C. Winans and B. L. Bassler, Eds), pp. 379-392. American Society for Microbiology, Washington. 

DEFOIRDT T, BOON N, SORGELOOS P, VERSTRAETE W and BOSSIER P (2008) Quorum sensing and quorum quenching in Vibrio harveyi. lessons learned from in vivo work. The ISME Journal, 2,19-26. doi 10.1038/ismej.2007.92. 

KAL 15] Kalia V.C. (ed.). Quorum Sensing vs Quorum Quenching A Battle with No End in Sight, Springer, 2015. 

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