AstR-AstS, a new two-component signal transduction system, mediates swarming, adaptation to stationary phase and phenotypic variation in Photorhabdus luminescens

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 897-910

  Derzelle, Sylviane ^a,b   Ngo, Saravuth ^a   Turlin, Évelyne ^a   Duchaud, Éric ^a   Namane, Abdelkader ^a   Kunst, Frank ^a   Danchin, Antoine ^a   Bertin, Philippe ^a,c   Charles, Jean François ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN ASTR; PROTEIN ASTS; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; HYBRID; INCUBATION TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SYMBIOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 1942505387     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26563-0     Document Type: Article

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