Early activation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveals the architecture of a complex regulon

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schuster, Martin ^a,b   Greenberg, E Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN LASR; PROTEIN RHLR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LASR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULON; BACTERIAL GENE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 35648963173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-287     Document Type: Article

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