The LuxR family protein SpnR functions as a negative regulator of N-acylhomoserine lactone-dependent quorum sensing in Serratia marcescens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1655-1671

  Horng, Yu Tze ^a   Deng, Su Chen ^a   Daykin, Mavis ^c   Soo, Po Chi ^a   Wei, Jun Rong ^a   Luh, Kwen Tay ^b   Ho, Shen Wu ^a,b   Swift, Simon ^c,d   Lai, Hsin Chih ^a,b   Williams, Paul ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PRODIGIOSIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPNR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYNTHESIS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PRODIGIOSIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 18644385349     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03117.x     Document Type: Article

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