Xanthomonas campestris cell-cell communication involves a putative nucleotide receptor protein Clp and a hierarchical signalling network

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-292

  He, Ya Wen ^a   Ng, Alvin Yu Jin ^a   Xu, Min ^a   Lin, Kui ^b   Wang, Lian Hui ^a   Dong, Yi Hu ^a   Zhang, Lian Hui ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLP PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FHRR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZUR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REGULON; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 34247372720     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05670.x     Document Type: Article

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