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Advanced healthcare materials. 3(7), 1020-5 MURRAY EJ, CROWLEY RC, TRUMAN A, CLARKE SR, COTTAM JA, JADHAV GP, STEELE VR, O'SHEA P, LINDHOLM C, COCKAYNE A, CHHABRA SR, CHAN WC and WILLIAMS P, 2014. Targeting Staphylococcus aureus quorum sensing with nonpeptidic small molecule inhibitors. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 57(6), 2813-9 LAABEI M, RECKER M, RUDKIN JK, ALDELJAWI M, GULAY Z, SLOAN TJ, WILLIAMS P, ENDRES JL, BAYLES KW, FEY PD, YAJJALA VK, WIDHELM T, HAWKINS E, LEWIS K, PARFETT S, SCOWEN L, PEACOCK SJ, HOLDEN M, WILSON D, READ TD, VAN DEN ELSEN J, PRIEST NK, FEIL EJ, HURST LD, JOSEFSSON E and MASSEY RC, 2014. Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence. Genome research. 24(5), 839-49 GORDON, CHRISTOPHER P., WILLIAMS, PAUL and CHAN, WENG C., 2013. Attenuating Staphylococcus aureus virulence gene regulation: a medicinal chemistry perspective Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 56(4), 1389-1404 HOOK, A.L., CHANG, C.-Y., YANG, J., ATKINSON, S., LANGER, R., ANDERSON, D.G., DAVIES, M.C., WILLIAMS, P. and ALEXANDER, M.R., 2013. Discovery of novel materials with broad resistance to bacterial attachment using combinatorial polymer microarrays Advanced Materials. 25(18), 2542-2547 LEE, J., WU, J., DENG, Y., WANG, J., WANG, C., WANG, J., CHANG, C., DONG, Y., WILLIAMS, P. and ZHANG, L.-H., 2013. A cell-cell communication signal integrates quorum sensing and stress response Nature Chemical Biology. 9(5), 339-343 ILANGOVAN, A., FLETCHER, M., RAMPIONI, G., PUSTELNY, C., RUMBAUGH, K., HEEB, S., CÁMARA, M, TRUMAN, A., CHHABRA, S.R., EMSLEY, J. and WILLIAMS, P., 2013. Structural basis for native agonist and synthetic inhibitor recognition by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing regulator PqsR (MvfR) PLoS Pathogens. 9(7), e1003508 MORRIS, E.R., HALL, G., LI, C., HEEB, S., KULKARNI, R.V., LOVELOCK, L., SILISTRE, H., MESSINA, M., CÁMARA, M., EMSLEY, J., WILLIAMS, P. and SEARLE, M.S., 2013. Structural rearrangement in an RsmA/CsrA ortholog of Pseudomonas aeruginosa creates a dimeric RNA-binding protein, RsmN Structure. 21(9), 1659-1671 HOOK, ANDREW L., SCURR, DAVID J., ANDERSON, DANIEL G., LANGER, ROBERT, WILLIAMS, PAUL, DAVIES, MARTYN and ALEXANDER, MORGAN, 2013. High throughput discovery of thermo-responsive materials using water contact angle measurements and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry SURFACE AND INTERFACE ANALYSIS. 45(1), 181-184 DESOUKY, SAID E., NISHIGUCHI, KENZO, ZENDO, TAKESHI, IGARASHI, YASUHIRO, WILLIAMS, PAUL, SONOMOTO, KENJI and NAKAYAMA, JIRO, 2013. High-Throughput Screening of Inhibitors Targeting Agr/Fsr Quorum Sensing in Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY. 77(5), 923-927 RUDKIN, J.K., EDWARDS, A.M., BOWDEN, M.G., BROWN, E.L., POZZI, C., WATERS, E.M., CHAN, W.C., WILLIAMS, P., O'GARA, J.P. and MASSEY, R.C., 2012. Methicillin resistance reduces the virulence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by interfering with the agr quorum sensing system Journal of Infectious Diseases. 205(5), 798-806 HOOK, A.L., CHANG C.-Y., YANG, J., LUCKETT, J., COCKAYNE, A., ATKINSON, S., MEI, Y., BAYSTON, R., IRVINE, D.J., LANGER, R., ANDERSON, D.G., WILLIAMS, P., DAVIES, M.C. and ALEXANDER, M.R., 2012. Combinatorial discovery of polymers resistant to bacterial attachment Nature Biotechnology. 30(9), 868-875 CRUSZ, S.A., POPAT, R., RYBTKE, M.T., CÁMARA, M., GIVSKOV, M., TOLKER-NIELSEN, T., DIGGLE, S.P. and WILLIAMS, P., 2012. Bursting the bubble on bacterial biofilms: a flow cell methodology Biofouling. 28(8), 835-842 POPAT, R., CRUSZ, S.A., MESSINA, M., WILLIAMS, P., WEST, S.A. and DIGGLE, S.P., 2012. Quorum-sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B Biological Sciences. 279(1748), 4765-4771 HEEB S, FLETCHER MP, CHHABRA SR, DIGGLE SP, WILLIAMS P and CÁMARA M, 2011. Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers. FEMS microbiology reviews. 35(2), 247-74 DIGGLE, S.P., FLETCHER, M.P., CAMARA, M. and WILLIAMS, P., 2011. Detection of 2-alkyl-4-quinolones using biosensors Methods in Molecular Biology. 692, 21-30 KARAVOLOS, M.H., BULMER, D.M., SPENCER, H., RAMPIONI, G., SCHMALEN, I., BAKER, S., PICKARD, D., GRAY, J., FOOKES, M., WINZER, K., IVENS, A., DOUGAN, G., WILLIAMS, P. and ANJAM KHAN, C.M., 2011. Salmonella Typhi sense host neuroendocrine stress hormones and release the toxin haemolysin E EMBO Reports. 12(3), 252-258 HOTHERSALL, J, MURPHY, AC, IQBAL, Z, CAMPBELL, G, STEPHENS, ER, WU, JE, COOPER, H, ATKINSON, S, WILLIAMS, P, CROSBY, J, WILLIS, CL, COX, RJ, SIMPSON, TJ and THOMAS, CM, 2011. Manipulation Of Quorum Sensing Regulation In Pseudomonas Fluorescens Ncimb 10586 To Increase Mupirocin Production Applied Microbiology And Biotechnology. 90(3), 1017-1026 NIEWERTH H, BERGANDER K, CHHABRA SR, WILLIAMS P and FETZNER S, 2011. Synthesis And Biotransformation Of 2-Alkyl-4(1H)-Quinolones By Recombinant Pseudomonas Putida Kt2440. Applied Microbiology And Biotechnology. 91(5), 1399-408 WEI Q, TARIGHI S, DÖTSCH A, HÄUSSLER S, MÜSKEN M, WRIGHT VJ, CÁMARA M, WILLIAMS P, HAENEN S, BOERJAN B, BOGAERTS A, VIERSTRAETE E, VERLEYEN P, SCHOOFS L, WILLAERT R, DE GROOTE VN, MICHIELS J, VERCAMMEN K, CRABBÉ A and CORNELIS P, 2011. Phenotypic And Genome-Wide Analysis Of An Antibiotic-Resistant Small Colony Variant (Scv) Of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa. Plos One. 6(12), e29276 MOSCOSO, J.A., MIKKELSEN, H., HEEB, S., WILLIAMS, P. and FILLOUX, A., 2011. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa sensor RetS switches Type III and Type VI secretion via c-di-GMP signalling Environmental Microbiology. 13(12), 3128-3138 CZAJKOWSKI, R, KRZYZANOWSKA, D, KARCZEWSKA, J, ATKINSON, S, PRZYSOWA, J, LOJKOWSKA, E, WILLIAMS, P and JAFRA, S, 2011. Inactivation Of Ahls By Ochrobactrum Sp A44 Depends On The Activity Of A Novel Class Of Ahl Acylase Environmental Microbiology Reports. 3(1), 59-68 ATKINSON, S., GOLDSTONE, R.J., JOSHUA, G.W.P., CHANG, C-Y., PATRICK, H.L., CAMARA, M., WREN, B.W. and WILLIAMS, P., 2011. Biofilm development on Caenorhabditis elegans by Yersinia is facilitated by quorum sensing-dependent repression of type III secretion PLOS Pathogens. 7(1), e1001250 DIGGLE SP, FLETCHER MP, CÁMARA M and WILLIAMS P, 2011. Detection of 2-alkyl-4-quinolones using biosensors. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 692, 21-30 SONNLEITNER, E., GONZALEZ, N., SORGER-DOMENIGG, T., HEEB, S., RICHTER, A.S., BACKOFEN, R., WILLIAMS, P., HÜTTENHOFER, A., HAAS, D. and BLÄSI, U., 2011. The small RNA PhrS stimulates synthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal Molecular Microbiology. 80(4), 868-885 KADAM, R.U., BERGMANN, M., HURLEY, M., GARG, D., CACCIARINI, M., SWIDERSKA, M.A., NATIVI, C., SATTLER, M., SMYTH, A.R., WILLIAMS, P., CÁMARA, M., STOCKER, A., DARBRE, T. and REYMOND, J-L., 2011. A glycopeptide dendrimer inhibitor of the galactose-specific lectin LecA and of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(45), 10631-10635 CHAN, K.-G., ATKINSON, S., MATHEE, K., SAM, C.-K., CHHABRA, S.R., CÁMARA, M., KOH, C.-L. and 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 Microbiology. 11, 51 JADHAV GP, CHHABRA SR, TELFORD G, HOOI DS, RIGHETTI K, WILLIAMS P, KELLAM B, PRITCHARD DI and FISCHER PM, 2011. Immunosuppressive but non-LasR-inducing analogues of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing molecule N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 54(9), 3348-3359 HOOK, ANDREW L, ANDERSON, DANIEL G, LANGER, ROBERT, WILLIAMS, PAUL, DAVIES, MARTYN C and ALEXANDER, MORGAN R, 2010. High throughput methods applied in biomaterial development and discovery. Biomaterials. 31(2), 187-98 SMYTH, ALAN R, CIFELLI, PARAMITA M, ORTORI, CATHARINE A, RIGHETTI, KARIMA, LEWIS, SARAH, ERSKINE, PENNY, HOLLAND, ELAINE D, GIVSKOV, MICHAEL, WILLIAMS, PAUL, CÁMARA, MIGUEL, BARRETT, DAVID A and KNO, 2010. Garlic as an inhibitor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing in cystic fibrosis--a pilot randomized controlled trial. Pediatric Pulmonology. 45(4), 356-62 HALLIDAY, N M, HARDIE, K R, WILLIAMS, P, WINZER, K and BARRETT, D A, 2010. Quantitative liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry profiling of activated methyl cycle metabolites involved in LuxS-dependent quorum sensing in Escherichia coli. Analytical Biochemistry. 403(1-2), 20-9 JABBARI, SARA, KING, JOHN R, KOERBER, ADRIAN J and WILLIAMS, PAUL, 2010. Mathematical modelling of the agr operon in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 61(1), 17-54 SPENCER, H, KARAVOLOS, M H, BULMER, D M, ALDRIDGE, P, CHHABRA, S R, WINZER, K, WILLIAMS, P and KHAN, C M A, 2010. Genome-wide transposon mutagenesis identifies a role for host neuroendocrine stress hormones in regulating the expression of virulence genes in Salmonella. Journal of Bacteriology. 192(3), 714-24 RAMPIONI, G., PUSTELNY, C., FLETCHER, M.P., WRIGHT, V.J., BRUCE, M., RUMBAUGH, K.P., HEEB, S., CÁMARA, M. and WILLIAMS, P., 2010. Transcriptomic analysis reveals a global alkyl-quinolone-independent regulatory role for PqsE in facilitating the environmental adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to plant and animal hosts Environmental Microbiology. 12(6), 1659-1673 KADIRVEL, MANIKANDAN, STIMPSON, WILLIAM T, MOUMENE-AFIFI, SOUAD, ARSIC, BILJANA, GLYNN, NICOLA, HALLIDAY, NIGEL, WILLIAMS, PAUL, GILBERT, PETER, MCBAIN, ANDREW J, FREEMAN, SALLY and GARDINER, JOHN M, 2010. Synthesis and bioluminescence-inducing properties of autoinducer (S)-4,5-dihydroxypentane-2,3-dione and its enantiomer. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 20(8), 2625-8 RAMSAY, J.P., SULLIVAN, J.T., JAMBARI, N., ORTORI, C.A., HEEB, S., WILLIAMS, P., BARRETT, D.A., LAMONT, I.L. and RONSON, C.W., 2009. A LuxRI-family regulatory system controls excision and transfer of the Mesorhizobium loti strain R7A symbiosis island by activating expression of two conserved hypothetical genes Molecular Microbiology. 73(6), 1141-1155 SKINDERSOE ME, ZEUTHEN LH, BRIX S, FINK LN, LAZENBY J, WHITTALL C, WILLIAMS P, DIGGLE SP, FROEKIAER H, COOLEY M and GIVSKOV M, 2009. Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing signal molecules interfere with dendritic cell-induced T-cell proliferation. FEMS immunology and medical microbiology. 55(3), 335-45 PERRETT, CHARLOTTE A, KARAVOLOS, MICHAIL H, HUMPHREY, SUZANNE, MASTROENI, PIETRO, MARTINEZ-ARGUDO, ISABEL, SPENCER, HANNAH, BULMER, DAVID, WINZER, KLAUS, MCGHIE, EMMA, KORONAKIS, VASSILIS, WILLIAMS, P, KHAN, C M A and JEPSON, M A, 2009. LuxS-based quorum sensing does not affect the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to express the SPI-1 type 3 secretion system, induce membrane ruffles, or invade epithelial cells. 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ATKINSON, STEVE and WILLIAMS, PAUL, 2009. Quorum sensing and social networking in the microbial world. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society. 6(40), 959-78 TAIT, K., WILLIAMSON, H., ATKINSON, S., WILLIAMS, P., CÁMARA, M. and JOINT, I., 2009. Turnover of quorum sensing signal molecules modulates cross-kingdom signalling Environmental Microbiology. 11(7), 1792-1802 BOONTHAM, P, ROBINS, A, CHANDRAN, P, PRITCHARD, D, CAMARA, M, WILLIAMS, P, CHUTHAPISITH, S, MCKECHNIE, A, ROWLANDS, BJ and EREMIN, O, 2008. Significant immunomodulatory effects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing signal molecules: possible link in human sepsis. Clinical Science. 115(11), 343-351 DIGGLE, S.P., HEEB, S., DUBERN, J.F., FLETCHER, M.P., CRUSZ, S.A., WILLIAMS, P. and CAMARA, M., 2008. Quorum sensing in Pseudomonads. In: REHM, B.H.A., ed., Pseudomonas: Model organism, Pathogen, Cell Factory Wiley-VCH. 167-194 (In Press.)
SEABRA, R., BROWN, A., HOOI, D., KERKHOFF, C., CHHABRA, S.R., HARTY, C., WILLIAMS, P. and PRITCHARD D.I., 2008. A eukaryotic binding protein for the immune modulatory bacterial quorum sensing molecule N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone Calcium Binding Proteins. (In Press.)
KARAVOLOS, M H, BULMER, D M, WINZER, K, WILSON, M, MASTROENI, P, WILLIAMS, P and KHAN, C M A, 2008. LuxS affects flagellar phase variation independently of quorum sensing in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium. Journal of Bacteriology. 190(2), 769-71 JENSEN, R.O., WINZER, K., CLARKE, S.R., CHAN, W.C. and WILLIAMS, P., 2008. Differential recognition of Staphylococcus aureus quorum-sensing signals depends on both extracellular loops 1 and 2 of the transmembrane sensor AgrC Journal of Molecular Biology. 381(2), 300-309 KARAVOLOS, M H, SPENCER, H, BULMER, D M, THOMPSON, A, WINZER, K, WILLIAMS, P, HINTON, J C D and KHAN, C M ANJAM, 2008. Adrenaline modulates the global transcriptional profile of Salmonella revealing a role in the antimicrobial peptide and oxidative stress resistance responses. BMC Genomics. 9, 458 TARIGHI, SAEED, WEI, QING, CÁMARA, MIGUEL, WILLIAMS, PAUL, FLETCHER, MATTHEW P, KAJANDER, TOMMI and CORNELIS, PIERRE, 2008. The PA4204 gene encodes a periplasmic gluconolactonase (PpgL) which is important for fitness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiology (Reading, England). 154(Pt 10), 2979-90
JOHANSSON, E.M.V., CRUSZ, S.A., KOLOMIETS, E., BUTS, L., KADAM, R.U., CACCIARINI, M., BARTELS, K.-M., DIGGLE, S.P., CAMARA, M., WILLIAMS, P., LORIS, R., NATIVI, C., ROSENAU, F., JAEGER, K.-E., DARBRE, T. and REYMOND, J.-L., 2008. Inhibition and dispersion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms by glycopeptide dendrimers targeting the fucose-specific lectin LecB Chemistry & Biology. 15(12), 1249-1257 ATKINSON, S., CHANG, C.-Y., PATRICK, H.L., BUCKLEY, C.M.F., WANG, Y., SOCKETT, R.E., CÁMARA, M. and WILLIAMS, P., 2008. Functional interplay between the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis YpsRI and YtbRI quorum sensing systems modulates swimming motility by controlling expression of flhDC and fliA Molecular Microbiology. 69(1), 137-151 DIGGLE, S.P., MATTHIJS, S., WRIGHT, V.J., FLETCHER, M.P., CHHABRA, S.R., LAMONT, I.L., KONG, X., HIDER, R.C., CORNELIS, P., CÁMARA, M. and WILLIAMS, P., 2007. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa 4-quinolone signal molecules HHQ and PQS play multi-functional roles in quorum sensing and iron entrapment Chemistry & Biology. 14(1), 87-96 ORTORI, C.A., ATKINSON, S., CHHABRA, S.R., CAMARA, M., WILLIAMS, P. and BARRETT, D.A., 2007. Comprehensive profiling of n-acyl homoserine lactones produced by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis using liquid chromatography coupled to hybrid quadrupole-linear ion trap mass spectrometry Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 387(2), 497-511 FLETCHER, M.P., DIGGLE, S.P., CRUSZ, S.A., CHHABRA, S.R., CAMARA, M. and WILLIAMS, P., 2007. A dual biosensor for 2-alkyl-4-quinolone quorum sensing signal molecules Environmental Microbiology. 9, 2683-2693 WILLIAMS, P., WINZER, K., CHAN, W.C. and CAMARA, M., 2007. Look who's talking: communication and quorum sensing in the bacterial world Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 362, 1119-1134 HOLDEN, M.T.G., DIGGLE, S.P. and WILLIAMS, P., 2007. Quorum sensing. In: , ed., Encyclopedia of Life Sciences John Wiley & Sons. 1-17
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VAN HOUDT, ROB, MOONS, PIETER, AERTSEN, ABRAM, JANSEN, AN, VANOIRBEEK, KRISTOF, DAYKIN, MAVIS, WILLIAMS, PAUL and MICHIELS, CHRIS W, 2007. Characterization of a luxI/luxR-type quorum sensing system and N-acyl-homoserine lactone-dependent regulation of exo-enzyme and antibacterial component production in Serratia plymuthica RVH1. Research in Microbiology. 158(2), 150-8 JENSEN, PETER Ø, BJARNSHOLT, THOMAS, PHIPPS, RICHARD, RASMUSSEN, THOMAS B, CALUM, HENRIK, CHRISTOFFERSEN, LARS, MOSER, CLAUS, WILLIAMS, PAUL, PRESSLER, TACJANA, GIVSKOV, MICHAEL and HØIBY, NIEL, 2007. Rapid necrotic killing of polymorphonuclear leukocytes is caused by quorum-sensing-controlled production of rhamnolipid by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbiology. 153(Pt 5), 1329-38
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VALLET, I., DIGGLE, S.P., STACEY, R.E., CAMARA, M., VENTRE, I., LORY, S., LAZDUNSKI, A., WILLIAMS, P. and FILLOUX, A., 2004. Biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: fimbrial cup gene clusters are controlled by the transcriptional regulator MvaT Journal of Bacteriology. 186(9), 2880-2890 CHHABRA,S.R., PHILIP,B., EBERL,L., GIVSKOV,M., WILLIAMS,P. and CAMARAGARCIA,M.M., 2004. Extracellular communication in bacteria. In: SCHULZ, S., ed., The chemistry of pheromones and other semiochemicals II Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
CHHABRA, S.R., HARTY, C., HOOI, D.S.W., DAYKIN, M., WILLIAMS, P., TELFORD, G., PRITCHARD, D.I. and BYCROFT, B.W., 2003. Synthetic analogues of the bacterial signal (quorum sensing) molecule N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone as immune modulators Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(1), 97-104 DIGGLE, S.P., WINZER, K., CHHABRA, S.R., WORRALL, K.E., CÁMARA, M. and WILLIAMS, P., 2003. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal molecule overcomes the cell density-dependency of the quorum sensing hierarchy, regulates rhl-dependent genes at the onset of stationary phase and can be produced in the absence of LasR Molecular Microbiology. 50(1), 29-43 KING, J.R., KOERBER, A.J., CROFT, J.M., WARD, J.P., WILLIAMS, P. and SOCKETT, R.E., 2003. Modelling host tissue degradation by extracellular bacterial pathogens Mathematical Medicine and Biology. 20(3), 227-260 SCOTT, R.J., LIAN, L.Y., MUHARRAM, S.H., COCKAYNE, A., WOOD, S.J., BYCROFT, B.W., WILLIAMS, P. and CHAN, W.C., 2003. Side-chain-to-tail thiolactone peptide inhibitors of the staphylococcal quorum-sensing system Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 13(15), 2449-53 PRITCHARD,D.I., HOOI,D.S., WATSON,E., CHOW,S.C., TELFORD,G., BYCROFT,B.W., CHHABRA,S.R., HARTY,C., CAMARAGARCIA,M.M., DIGGLE,S.P. and WILLIAMS,P., 2003. Bacterial quorum sensing signalling molecules as immune modulators. In: HENDERSON, B. and OYSTON P.C.F., eds., Bacterial evasion of host immune responses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 201-221
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WINZER, K. and WILLIAMS, P., 2003. Escherichia coli gets the message Nature Medicine. 9(9), 1118-1119 BURTON, C.L., CHHABRA, S.R., SWIFT, S., BALDWIN, T.J., WITHERS, H., HILL, S.J. and WILLIAMS, P., 2002. The growth response of Escherichia coli to neurotransmitters and related catecholamine drugs requires a functional enterobactin biosynthesis and uptake system Infection and Immunity. 70(11), 5913-5923 MORRISSEY, J.A., COCKAYNE, A., HAMMACOTT, J., BISHOP, K., DENMAN-JOHNSON, A., HILL, P.J. and WILLIAMS, P., 2002. Conservation, surface exposure, and in vivo expression of the Frp family of iron-regulated cell wall proteins in Staphylococcus aureus. Infection and Immunity. 70(5), 2399-2407 WINZER, K., HARDIE, K.R., BURGESS, N., DOHERTY, N., KIRKE, D., HOLDEN, M.T.G., LINFORTH, R., CORNELL, K.A., TAYLOR, A.J., HILL, P.J. and WILLIAMS P., 2002. LuxS: its role in central metabolism and the in vitro synthesis of 4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone Microbiology. 148(4), 909-922 JOINT, I., TAIT, K., CALLOW, M.E., CALLOW, J.A., MILTON, D., WILLIAMS, P. and CÁMARA, M., 2002. Cell-to-cell communication across the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary Science. 298(5596), 1207 DIGGLE, S.P., WINZER, K., LAZDUNSKI, A., WILLIAMS, P. and CÁMARA, M., 2002. Advancing the quorum in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: MvaT and the regulation of N-acylhomoserine lactone production and virulence gene expression Journal of Bacteriology. 184(10), 2576-2586 CROXATTO, A., CHALKER, V.J., LAURITZ, J., JASS, J., HARDMAN, A., WILLIAMS, P., CAMARA, M. and MILTON, D.L., 2002. VanT, a homologue of Vibrio harveyi LuxR, regulates serine, metalloprotease, pigment, and biofilm production in Vibrio anguillarum Journal of Bacteriology. 184(6), 1617-1629 WINZER, K., HARDIE, K.R. and WILLIAMS, P., 2002. Bacterial cell-to-cell communication: sorry, can't talk now - gone to lunch! Current Opinion in Microbiology. 5(2), 216-222 HORNG, Y.T., DENG, S.C., DAYKIN, M., SOO, P.C., WEI, J.R., LUH, K.T., HO, S.W., SWIFT, S., LAI, H.C. and WILLIAMS, P., 2002. The LuxR family protein SpnR functions as a negative regulator of N-acylhomoserine lactone-dependent quorum sensing in Serratia marcescens Molecular Microbiology. 45(6), 1655-1672 BURGESS, N.A., KIRKE, D.F., WILLIAMS, P., WINZER, K., HARDIE, K.R., MEYERS, N.L., ADUSE-OPOKU, J., CURTIS, M.A. and CAMARA, M., 2002. LuxS-dependent quorum sensing in Porphyromonas gingivalis modulates protease and haemagglutinin activities but is not essential for virulence Microbiology. 148(3), 763-772
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TAMINIAU, B., DAYKIN, M., SWIFT, S., BOSCHIROLI, M.L., TIBOR, A., LESTRATE, P., DE BOLLE, X., O CALLAGHAN, D., WILLIAMS, P. and LETESSON, J.J., 2002. Identification of a quorum-sensing signal molecule in the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis Infection and Immunity. 70(6), 3004-3011 CAMARA, M., WILLIAMS, P. and HARDMAN, A., 2002. Controlling infection by tuning in and turning down the volume of bacterial small-talk Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2(11), 667-676 WHITEHEAD,N.A., HARRIS,A.K., WILLIAMS,P. and SALMOND,G.P., 2002. Quorum sensing in gram negative bacteria: global regulons controlled by cell-density dependent chemical signalling. In: HODGSON, D.A. and THOMAS, C.M., eds., Signals, switches, regulons and cascades: control of bacterial gene expression Cambridge University Press. 251-287
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