Quorum-sensing based bacteriocin production is down-regulated by N-terminally truncated species of gene activators

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-293

  Straume, Daniel ^a   Kjos, Morten ^a   Nes, Ingolf F ^a   Diep, Dzung B ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacteriocins; Gene regulation; Quorum sensing; Repression; Three component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUORUM SENSING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM;

EID: 34547842488     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0251-z     Document Type: Article

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