The global regulator Lrp contributes to mutualism, pathogenesis and phenotypic variation in the bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1311-1323

  Cowles, Kimberly N ^a,b   Cowles, Charles E ^a,b   Richards, Gregory R ^a   Martens, Eric C ^a,c   Goodrich blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HORSES; HUMANS; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; MANDUCA; MUTATION; NEMATODA; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RABBITS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 34047271971     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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