A distinctive dual-channel quorum-sensing system operates in Vibrio anguillarum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1677-1689

  Croxatto, Antony ^a   Pride, John ^b   Hardman, Andrea ^b   Williams, Paul ^b   Cámara, Miguel ^b   Milton, Debra L ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; GENE REPRESSION; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 3042522639     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04083.x     Document Type: Article

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