Site-directed mutagenesis of a LuxR-type quorum-sensing transcription factor: Alteration of autoinducer specificity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 765-776

  Chai, Yunrong ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHEROMONES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1242320300     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03857.x     Document Type: Article

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