Dissection of the promoter/operator region and evaluation of N-acylhomoserine lactone mediated transcriptional regulation of elastase expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 311-318

  Fukushima, Jun ^a   Ishiwata, Tetsuyoshi ^a   You, Zhiying ^a   Ishii, Toshinori ^a   Shigematsu, Takashi ^a   Kurata, Minoru ^a   Chikumaru Fujita, Shizuko ^a   Bycroft, Barrie W ^b   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^b   Kawamoto, Ssumu ^a   Morihara, Kazuyuki ^c   Williams, Paul ^b   Okuda, Kenji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c University of East Asia   (Japan)

Author keywords

elastase; lasB; N acylhomoserine lactone; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; quorum sensing; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; LACTONE; SERINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031037475     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)30495-8     Document Type: Article

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