Involvement of LuxR, a quorum sensing regulator in Vibrio harveyi, in the promotion of metabolic genes: argA, purM, lysE and rluA

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1759, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 296-307

  Miyamoto, Carol M ^a   Meighen, Edward A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ARG box; Luminescence; Quorum sensing; V. harveyi LuxR; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; PURINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; SCREENING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

AMINO-ACID N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC LIBRARY; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 33748707862     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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