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Staphylococcus aureus autoinducer-2 quorum sensing decreases biofilm formation in an icaR-dependent manner

BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen that causes biofilm-associated infection in humans. Autoinducer 2 (AI-2), a quorum-sensing (QS) signal for interspecies communication, has a wide range of regulatory functions in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, but its exact r...

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Autores principales: Yu, Dan, Zhao, Liping, Xue, Ting, Sun, Baolin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-288