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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2010 Dec 2;111(1):68–85. doi: 10.1021/cr1000817

Table 1.

AHL signals and bacteria.

AHL synthase Species Signal Function Reference
3-oxo-AHLs
EsaI Pantoea sterwartii 3-oxo-C6-HSL plant pathogen 80
LuxI Vibrio fischeri 3-oxo-C6-HSL marine symbiont 1
YspI Yersinia pestis 3-oxo-C6/C8-HSL Plague causative agent 66
TraI Agrobacterium tumefaciens 3-oxo-C8-HSL Crown gall causative agent 81
VanI Vibrio anguillarum 3-oxo-C10-HSL fish pathogen 82
LasI Pseudomonas aeruginosa 3-oxo-C12-HSL opportunistic pathogen 83
SinI Sinorhizobium meliloti 3-oxo-C14-HSL nitrogen fixing symbiont 8
3-oxo-9-cis-C16-HSL
3-hydroxy-AHLs
Xenorhabdus nematophilus 3-hydroxy-C4-HSL nematode symbiont 84
PhzI Pseudomonas fluorescens 3-hydroxy-C6/C8-HSL phenazine producer 52
CinI Rhizobium leguminosarum 3-hydroxy-7-cis-C14-HSL nitrogen fixing symbiont 85
Unsubstituted AHLs
RhlI Pseudomonas aeruginosa C4-HSL opportunistic pathogen 4
CviI Chromobacterium violaceum C6-HSL antibiotic producer 76
CepI Burkholderia cepacia C8-HSL soil bacterium 77
BmaI1 Burkholderia mallei C8/C10-HSL Glanders causative agent 78
CerI Rhodobacter sphaeroides 7-cis-C14-HSL photosynthetic bacterium 79
SinI Sinorhizobium melioti 9-cis-C16-HSL nitrogen fixing symbiont 8
C18-HSL