The regulatory locus cinRI in Rhizobium leguminosarum controls a network of quorum-sensing loci

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-97

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

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f University of Lyon   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTONE DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DENSITY; CHROMOSOME; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GROWTH INHIBITION; MATING; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0033924844     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01960.x     Document Type: Review

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