Phosphate availability regulates biosynthesis of two antibiotics, prodigiosin and carbapenem, in Serratia via both quorum-sensing-dependent and -independent pathways

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-320

  Slater, Holly ^a   Crow, Matthew ^a,b   Everson, Lee ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DNA Research Innovations Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; PHEROMONE; PHOSPHATE; PRODIGIOSIN; RAP PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERRATIA;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBAPENEMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHATES; PRODIGIOSIN; SERRATIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA SP.; SERRATIA SP. ATCC 39006; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037244560     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03295.x     Document Type: Article

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