Global regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: The regulatory protein AlgR2 (AlgQ) acts as a modulator of quorum sensing

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-213

  Ledgham, Fouzia ^a,c   Soscia, Chantal ^a   Chakrabarty, Ananda ^b   Lazdunski, Andrée ^a   Foglino, Maryline ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Alginate synthesis; Elastase; Global regulation; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Quorum sensing; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0037386459     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(03)00024-X     Document Type: Article

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