The Vibrio fischeri quorum-sensing systems ain and lux sequentially induce luminescence gene expression and are important for persistence in the squid host

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 319-331

  Lupp, Claudia ^a   Urbanowski, Mark ^b   Greenberg, E Peter ^b   Ruby, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN AIN; PROTEIN LUX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUID; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; DECAPODIFORMES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; HAWAIIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; SCOLOPES; SEPIOLIDAE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 0141818906     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.t01-1-03585.x     Document Type: Article

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