J. C. van Kessel

The paper identifies thiophenesulfonamides as specific inhibitors of quorum sensing in Vibrio species, with PTSP showing potent activity against multiple strains.

This paper investigates how SmcR, a quorum-sensing regulator in Vibrio vulnificus, recognizes diverse DNA sequences through a flexible DNA binding domain, revealing two mechanisms for transcriptional activation.

This study identifies HapR as a repressor of the chitobiose utilization operon in V. cholerae, showing species-specific quorum sensing regulates chitin utilization.

This paper compares the quorum-sensing systems of Vibrio campbellii DS40M4 and BB120, finding genetic and functional differences in autoinducer production, regulatory mechanisms, and regulon size.

This study identifies second-tier transcription factors regulated by LuxR in Vibrio harveyi and shows they control metabolic processes and cell density-dependent behaviors.

The paper shows LuxR counteracts H-NS repression to activate quorum sensing gene expression in Vibrio harveyi by displacing H-NS from promoters.