Multiple small RNAs act additively to integrate sensory information and control quorum sensing in Vibrio harveyi

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-233

  Tu, Kimberly C ^a   Bassler, Bonnie L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoinducer; Quorum sensing; sRNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUORUM SENSING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 33846508567     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1502407     Document Type: Article

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