Two opines control conjugal transfer of an Agrobacterium plasmid by regulating expression of separate copies of the quorum-sensing activator gene traR

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1121-1131

  Oger, Philippe ^a   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROCINOPINE A; AGROCINOPINE B; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; DNA; NOPALINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUGAR PHOSPHATES;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036154746     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.4.1121-1131.2002     Document Type: Article

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