Transcriptional regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa rhlR, encoding a quorum-sensing regulatory protein

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3073-3081

  Medina, Gerardo ^a   Juárez, Katy ^a   Díaz, Rafael ^b   Soberón Chávez, Gloria ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN LAS; PROTEIN LASR; PROTEIN RHL; PROTEIN RHLR; PROTEIN VFR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0344012050     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26282-0     Document Type: Article

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