. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 28.

Published in final edited form as: Chem Soc Rev. 2008 Jun 2;37(7):1432–1447. doi: 10.1039/b703021p

Table 2.

Representative AHL biosensor strains^a

Entry	Source	QS system	Host and plasmid	Reporter system
1	V. fischeri	LuxI/R	E. coli pSB401	luxCDABE^b
2	V. fischeri	LuxI/R	E. coli pHV200I⁻	luxCDABE
3	P. aeruginosa	RhlI/R	P. aeruginosa PAO-JP2 prhlI-LVAgfp	GFP
4	P. aeruginosa	LasI/R	P. aeruginosa M71L7I⁻	β-Galactosidase
5	A. tumefaciens	TraI/R	A. tumefaciens NT1 pZLR4	β-Galactosidase
6	A. tumefaciens	TraI/R	A. tumefaciens WCF47 pCF218+pCF372	β-Galactosidase

See refs. ⁹, ¹⁶, and ⁴⁰ for additional information on these types of strains.

The luxCDABE operon provides a luciferase reporter.