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    McCready A, Paczkowski J, Henke B, Bassler B. Structural determinants driving homoserine lactone ligand selection in the LasR quorum-sensing receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(1):245–254. PMCID: PMC6320529
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    Huang X, Duddy O, Silpe J, Paczkowski J, Cong J, Henke B, Bassler B. Mechanism underlying autoinducer recognition in the DPO-VqmA quorum-sensing pathway. J Biol Chem. 2020;295(10):2916–2931. PMCID: PMC7062168
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    Sugihara J, Sun L, Yan N, Kaback R. Dynamics of the L-fucose/H+ symporter revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012;109(37):14847–51. PMCID: PMC3443143
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    DeGennaro M, McBride C, Seeholzer L, Nakagawa T, Dennis E, Goldman C, Jasinskiene N, James A, Vosshall L. orco mutant mosquitoes lose strong preference for humans and are not repelled by volatile DEET. Nature. 2013;498(7455):487–91. PMCID: PMC3696029
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    Chahal J, Gallagher C, DeHart C, Flint S. The repression domain of the E1B 55-kilodalton protein participates in countering interferon-induced inhibition of adenovirus replication. J Virol. 2013;87(8):4432–44. PMCID: PMC3624377
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    Surette M, Miller M, Bassler B. Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and Vibrio harveyi: a new family of genes responsible for autoinducer production. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999;96(4):1639–44. PMCID: PMC15544
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    Freeman J, Lilley B, Bassler B. A genetic analysis of the functions of LuxN: a two-component hybrid sensor kinase that regulates quorum sensing in Vibrio harveyi. Mol Microbiol. 2000;35(1):139–49. PMID: 10632884
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    Swem L, Swem D, Wingreen N, Bassler B. Deducing receptor signaling parameters from in vivo analysis: LuxN/AI-1 quorum sensing in Vibrio harveyi. Cell. 2008;134(3):461–73. PMCID: PMC2585989
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    Pompeani A, Irgon J, Berger M, Bulyk M, Wingreen N, Bassler B. The Vibrio harveyi master quorum-sensing regulator, LuxR, a TetR-type protein is both an activator and a repressor: DNA recognition and binding specificity at target promoters. Mol Microbiol. 2008;70(1):76–88. PMCID: PMC2628434
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    Kelly R, Bolitho M, Higgins D, Lu W, Ng W-L, Jeffrey P, Rabinowitz J, Semmelhack M, Hughson F, Bassler B. The Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing autoinducer CAI-1: analysis of the biosynthetic enzyme CqsA. Nat Chem Biol. 2009;5(12):891–5. PMCID: PMC2847429
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