Antibiotics as quorum-sensing autoinducers
CA 2328831 A1 · Owner: Davies, Julian · Inventors: Goh, Ee Been; Davies, Julian
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The invention provides assays for quorum-sensing autoinducer and antibiotic activities. In some embodiments a recombinant reporter gene construct in a host strain, includes a reporter coding sequence under the transcriptional control of a promoter that is, responsive to a selected autoinducer. In an alternative aspect the invention , provides for the, use of quorum-sensing antagonists with antibiotics. In some embodiments the , co-, administration of an antibiotic and an antagonist of quorum-sensing may alleviate adverse, effects that would result from the induction of quorum-sensing systems by an antibiotic that, would otherwise act as an autoinducer.
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- Filed January 9, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 9, 2021.
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