A plasmid-borne truncated luxI homolog controls quorum-sensing systems and extracellular carbohydrate production in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 7321-7324

  Nieto Penalver, Carlos G ^a   Cantet, Franck ^a   Morin, Danièle ^b   Haras, Dominique ^b   Vorholt, Julia A ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE SYNTHASE; CARBOHYDRATE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LUXI GENE; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MSAI GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TSLI GENE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIGASES; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS;

EID: 33749604252     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00649-06     Document Type: Article

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