Activity of the quorum-sensing regulator TraR of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is inhibited by a truncated, dominant defective TraR-like protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-297

  Zhu, Jun ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTOPINE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; MUTANT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, DOMINANT; MANNITOL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031963471     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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