Bioluminescence in Vibrio fischeri is controlled by the redox-responsive regulator ArcA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 538-553

  Bose, Jeffrey L ^a   Kim, Unmi ^b   Bartkowski, Wojciech ^b   Gunsalus, Robert P ^b   Overley, Ashley M ^a   Lyell, Noreen L ^a   Visick, Karen L ^c   Stabb, Eric V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ARCA; CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 34447307386     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05809.x     Document Type: Article

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