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Siri Ram Chhabra is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, supported by studies in Medicine.

The main fields of study in which they have contributed include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, Chhabra's work focuses on specific subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Genetics

The research topics covered in their publications highlight key areas related to bacterial behavior and antimicrobial challenges:

  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Their recent publication includes the paper titled A Pseudomonas aeruginosa PQS quorum-sensing system inhibitor with anti-staphylococcal activity sensitizes polymicrobial biofilms to tobramycin, published in 2022 in the journal Cell Chemical Biology. This article has been cited 33 times.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Siri Ram Chhabra are:

  • Ewan J. Murray
  • Jean-Frédéric Dubern
  • Weng C. Chan
  • Paul Williams

The main venue where Chhabra's recent work has appeared is:

  • Cell Chemical Biology

The scope of their work reveals a concentration on microbial interactions and resistance mechanisms, approached from molecular and microbiological perspectives. The collaborative efforts with multiple co-authors indicate interdisciplinary research activity within the microbiology and molecular biology communities.

Best Publications

  • Quorum sensing and Chromobacterium violaceum: exploitation of violacein production and inhibition for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones

    Kay H. McClean;Michael K. Winson;Leigh Fish;Adrian Taylor

  • Quorum-sensing cross talk: isolation and chemical characterization of cyclic dipeptides from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other gram-negative bacteria.

    Matthew T.G. Holden;Siri Ram Chhabra;Rocky De Nys;Paul Stead

  • Construction and analysis of luxCDABE-based plasmid sensors for investigating N-acyl homoserine lactone-mediated quorum sensing

    Michael K Winson;Simon Swift;Leigh Fish;John P Throup

  • Quinolones: from antibiotics to autoinducers

    Stephan Heeb;Matthew P. Fletcher;Siri Ram Chhabra;Stephen P. Diggle

  • Multiple N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone signal molecules regulate production of virulence determinants and secondary metabolites in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    M K Winson;M Camara;A Latifi;M Foglino

  • The lux autoinducer regulates the production of exoenzyme virulence determinants in Erwinia carotovora and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    S. Jones;B. Yu;N.J. Bainton;M. Birdsall

  • The Pseudomonas aeruginosa 4-Quinolone Signal Molecules HHQ and PQS Play Multifunctional Roles in Quorum Sensing and Iron Entrapment

    Stephen P. Diggle;Sandra Matthijs;Victoria J. Wright;Matthew P. Fletcher

  • N-Acylhomoserine Lactones Undergo Lactonolysis in a pH-, Temperature-, and Acyl Chain Length-Dependent Manner during Growth of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Edwin A. Yates;Bodo Philipp;Catherine Buckley;Steve Atkinson

  • The Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal molecule overcomes the cell density‐dependency of the quorum sensing hierarchy, regulates rhl‐dependent genes at the onset of stationary phase and can be produced in the absence of LasR

    Stephen P. Diggle;Klaus Winzer;Siri Ram Chhabra;Kathryn E. Worrall

  • Quorum sensing in Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas salmonicida: identification of the LuxRI homologs AhyRI and AsaRI and their cognate N-acylhomoserine lactone signal molecules.

    Simon Swift;Andrey V. Karlyshev;Leigh Fish;Emma L. Durant

  • Involvement of N‐acyl‐l‐homoserine lactone autoinducers in controlling the multicellular behaviour of Serratia liquefaciens

    Leo Eberl;Michael K. Winson;Claus Sternberg;Gordon S. A. B. Stewart

  • N-(3-oxohexanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone regulates carbapenem antibiotic production in Erwinia carotovora.

    N. J. Bainton;P. Stead;Sri Ram Chhabra;B. W>. Bycroft

  • A general role for the lux autoinducer in bacterial cell signalling: control of antibiotic biosynthesis in Erwinia

    Nigel J. Bainton;Barrie W. Bycroft;Siri Ram Chhabra;Paul Stead

  • Synthetic analogues of the bacterial signal (quorum sensing) molecule N-(3-oxododecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone as immune modulators.

    Siri Ram Chhabra;Chris Harty;Doreen S. W. Hooi;Mavis Daykin

  • N-Acylhomoserine lactone quorum-sensing molecules are modified and degraded by Rhodococcus erythropolis W2 by both amidolytic and novel oxidoreductase activities.

    Stéphane Uroz;Siri Ram Chhabra;Miguel Cámara;Paul Williams

  • Autoregulation of carbapenem biosynthesis in Erwinia carotovora by analogues of N-(3-oxohexanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone

    Siri Ram Chhabra;Paul Stead;Nigel J. Bainton;George P. C. Salmond

  • The biocontrol strain Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 produces the Rhizobium small bacteriocin, N-(3-hydroxy-7-cis-tetradecenoyl)homoserine lactone, via HdtS, a putative novel N-acylhomoserine lactone synthase.

    Bridget E. Laue;Yan Jiang;Siri Ram Chhabra;Sinead Jacob

  • Characterization of N-acylhomoserine lactone-degrading bacteria associated with the Zingiber officinale (ginger) rhizosphere: Co-existence of quorum quenching and quorum sensing in Acinetobacter and Burkholderia

    Kok Gan Chan;Kok Gan Chan;Steve Atkinson;Kalai Mathee;Choon Kook Sam

  • A novel strategy for the isolation of luxI homologues : evidence for the widespread distribution of a LuxR:LuxI superfamily in enteric bacteria

    S. Swift;M. K. Winson;P. F. Chan;N. J. Bainton

  • Quorum sensing in Vibrio anguillarum: characterization of the vanI/vanR locus and identification of the autoinducer N-(3-oxodecanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone.

    D. L. Milton;A. Hardman;M. Camara;Siri Ram Chhabra

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Williams
Paul Williams University of Nottingham
Barrie W. Bycroft
Barrie W. Bycroft University of Nottingham
Miguel Cámara
Miguel Cámara University of Nottingham
Gordon S. A. B. Stewart
Gordon S. A. B. Stewart University of Nottingham
Stephen P. Diggle
Stephen P. Diggle Georgia Institute of Technology
David I. Pritchard
David I. Pritchard University of Nottingham
Klaus Winzer
Klaus Winzer University of Nottingham
Yves Dessaux
Yves Dessaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kok-Gan Chan
Kok-Gan Chan University of Malaya
Michael Givskov
Michael Givskov University of Copenhagen

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