Quorum Sensing in Bacteria: the LuxR-LuxI Family of Cell Density-responsive Transcriptional Regulators

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1994 Jan 1

PMID 8288518

Citations 893

Authors

W C Fuqua

S C Winans

E P Greenberg

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