Table 2.

Range of AHLs detected by the three biosensor strains used in the study

acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL)	CV026	pSB403	pJBA89
N-Butanoyl-L-homoserine lacone (BHL)	▲	◦	▲ ▼ ▲
N-Butanoyl-L-homocysteine thiolacone (BHT)	▲	◦	◦
N-(-3-Oxobutanoyl)-L-homoserine lacone (OBHL)	▲ ▼ ▲	◦	◦
N-Benzoylacyl-l-homoserine lactone (BAHL)	▲	◦	◦
N-Hexanoyl-L-homoserine lacone (HHL)	▲	▲	▲
N-Hexanoyl-L-homocysteine thiolacone (HHT)	▲	◦	◦
N-(-3-Oxohexanoyl)-L-homoserine lacone (OHHL)	▲	▲	▲
N-(-3-Oxohexanoyl)-D-homoserine lacone ((D)OHHL)	▲ ▼ ▲	◦	◦
N-(-3-Oxohexanoyl)-L-homocysteine thiolacone (OHHT)	▲	◦	◦
N-Octanoyl-L-homoserine lacone (OHL)	▲	▲	▲ ▼ ▲
N-(3-Oxo-octanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (OOHL)	▲	▲	◦
N-Decanoyl-l-homoserine lactone (DHL)	△	▲	◦
N-(3-Oxodecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (ODHL)	△	▲	◦
N-Dodecanoyl-l-homoserine lactone (dDHL)	△	▲ ▼ ▲	◦
N-(3-Oxododecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (OdDHL)	△	▲ ▼ ▲	◦
N-Tetradecanoyl-l-homoserine lactone (tDHL)	△	◦	◦
N-(3-Oxotetradecanoyl)-l-homoserine lactone (OtDHL)	△	◦	◦

"▲" indicates a suitable biosensor; "▲ ▼ ▲" indicates that the sensor will detect the AHLs at high concentration; "△" indicates that the sensor will antagonize AHL-mediated induction; and "◦" indicates data not available. The data presented here was previously reported [36–39].