Two-component regulator of Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin responds to quorum-sensing autoinduction

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6867, 2002, Pages 84-87

  Haas, Wolfgang ^a   Shepard, Brett D ^a   Gilmore, Micheal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CELLS; GENES; HOSPITALS;

CLINICAL ISOLATES;

BACTERIA;

CYTOLYSIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; EXOTOXIN; GENE PRODUCT;

BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL DENSITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUSION; GENE REPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYTOTOXINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037011936     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415084a     Document Type: Article

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