A LuxR homolog controls production of symbiotically active extracellular polysaccharide II by Sinorhizobium meliloti

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 5067-5076

  Pellock, Brett J ^a   Teplitski, Max ^a   Boinay, Ryan P ^a   Bauer, W Dietz ^a   Walker, Graham C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR POLYSACCHARIDE II; HOMOSERINE; K ANTIGEN; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE DERIVATIVE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN RHIR; SUCCINOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FRACTIONATION; EXPR101 GENE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MUTATION; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0036723829     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.18.5067-5076.2002     Document Type: Article

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