The autoregulatory role of EsaR, a quorum-sensing regulator in Pantoea stewartii ssp. stewartii: Evidence for a repressor function

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1625-1635

  Minogue, Timothy D ^a   Wehland Von Trebra, Markus ^b,c   Bernhard, Frank ^b,d   Von Bodman, Susanne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; N (3 OXOHEXANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESAL; PROTEIN ESAR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESAI PROTEIN, ERWINIA STEWARTII; ESAR PROTEIN, PANTOEA STEWARTII; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA; PANTOEA STEWARTII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THERMOSTABILITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HOMEOSTASIS; PANTOEA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PANTOEA; PANTOEA STEWARTII;

EID: 0036016826     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02987.x     Document Type: Article

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