Modulating quorum sensing by antiactivation: TraM interacts with TraR to inhibit activation of Ti plasmid conjugal transfer genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 282-294

  Hwang, Ingyu ^a,b   Smyth, Audra J ^a,b   Luo, Zhao Qing ^a   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LEUCINE; PROLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DNA TRANSFER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032827926     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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