Dual control of quorum sensing by two TraM-type antiactivators in Agrobacterium tumefaciens octopine strain A6

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2435-2445

  Wang, Chao ^a   Zhang, Hai Bao ^a   Chen, Guozhou ^b   Chen, Lingling ^b   Zhang, Lian Hui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN TRAM; PROTEIN TRAM2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMID TI; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER A6; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER C58C1RS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER K588; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRAM GENE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33645240966     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.7.2435-2445.2006     Document Type: Article

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