Diversifying Selection at the Bacillus Quorum-Sensing Locus and Determinants of Modification Specificity during Synthesis of the ComX Pheromone

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-21

  Ansaldi, M ^a,b   Dubnau, D ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PROTEIN COMX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING LOCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFERASES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACILLI; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0346991737     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.1.15-21.2004     Document Type: Article

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