Regulation of long-chain N-acyl-homoserine lactones in Agrobacterium vitis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2173-2183

  Hao, Guixia ^a   Burr, Thomas J ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEIN LUXI; PROTEIN LUXR; PROTEIN SINI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; ARTICLE; AVSI GENE; AVSR GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAPE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT DISEASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VITIS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; VITIS SP.;

EID: 33644869477     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.6.2173-2183.2006     Document Type: Article

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