Quorum sensing but not autoinduction of Ti plasmid conjugal transfer requires control by the opine regulon and the antiactivator TraM

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1080-1088

  Piper, Kevin R ^a   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; REGULON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SUGAR PHOSPHATES;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033983429     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.4.1080-1088.2000     Document Type: Article

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