The Pseudomonas aeruginosa RpoS regulon and its relationship to quorum sensing

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 973-985

  Schuster, Martin ^a   Hawkins, Andrew C ^a   Harwood, Caroline S ^a   Greenberg, E P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHEMOTAXIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON; STRESS;

ALGINATES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHEMOTAXIS; ENZYMES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEXURONIC ACIDS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 1442349817     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03886.x     Document Type: Article

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