The quorum-sensing negative regulator RsaL of Pseudomonas aeruginosa binds to the lasI promoter

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 815-819

  Rampioni, Giordano ^a   Bertani, Iris ^b   Zennaro, Elisabetta ^a   Polticelli, Fabio ^a   Venturi, Vittorio ^b   Leoni, Livia ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; LASR PROTEIN; N ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE; RSAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; LASI GENE; LASR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RHLI GENE; RHLR GENE; RSAL GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; DOWN-REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 30744466701     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.2.815-819.2006     Document Type: Article

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