RefAHL: a curated quorum sensing reference linking diverse LuxI-type signal synthases with their acyl-homoserine lactone products

ABSTRACT Some bacteria use acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) signals in quorum sensing, a type of cell-cell communication. Here, we present “RefAHL,” an updated, curated collection of LuxI-type AHL synthases with their AHL products and associated metadata. RefAHL is publicly available as a community resource to help catalog LuxI-type diversity encoded in (meta) genomic data.

• Publication year

  2025

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  Microbiology Resource Announcements

• Publication date

  2025-05-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/mra.00407-25PMID 40401943PMCID 12160550
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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