Analysis of quorum-sensing-dependent control of rhizosphere-expressed (rhi) genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3816-3823

  Rodelas, Belen ^a,c   Lithgow, James K ^a   Wisniewski Dye, Florence ^a   Hardman, Andrea ^b   Wilkinson, Adam ^a,d   Economou, Anastassios ^a,e   Williams, Paul ^b   Downie, J Allan ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N (3 HYDROXY 7 TETRADECENOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N HEXANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0032980614     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.12.3816-3823.1999     Document Type: Article

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