The symbiosis regulator RscS controls the syp gene locus, biofilm formation and symbiotic aggregation by Vibrio fischeri

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1586-1600

  Yip, Emily S ^a   Geszvain, Kati ^a   DeLoney Marino, Cindy R ^b   Visick, Karen L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; RSCS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUID; SYMBIOSIS; SYP GENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOFILMS; DECAPODIFORMES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

CEPHALOPODA; EUKARYOTA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 33751370976     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05475.x     Document Type: Article

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