TraA, TraC and TraD autorepress two divergent quorum-regulated promoters near the transfer origin of the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1769-1782

  Cho, Hongbaek ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; NOPALINE; OCTOPINE;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLANT TUMOR-INDUCING PLASMIDS; QUORUM SENSING; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 33947220970     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05624.x     Document Type: Article

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