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SUBMITTER: Gram L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC123997 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gram Lone L Grossart Hans-Peter HP Schlingloff Andrea A Kiørboe Thomas T
Applied and environmental microbiology 20020801 8
We report here, for the first time, that bacteria associated with marine snow produce communication signals involved in quorum sensing in gram-negative bacteria. Four of 43 marine microorganisms isolated from marine snow were found to produce acylated homoserine lactones (AHLs) in well diffusion and thin-layer chromatographic assays based on the Agrobacterium tumefaciens reporter system. Three of the AHL-producing strains were identified by 16S ribosomal DNA gene sequence analysis as Roseobacter ...[more]