Functional interplay between the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis YpsRI and YtbRI quorum sensing systems modulates swimming motility by controlling expression of flhDC and fliA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-151

  Atkinson, Steve ^c   Chang, Chien Yi ^c   Patrick, Hannah L ^c   Buckley, Catherine M F ^a,c   Wang, Yao ^b,c   Sockett, R Elizabeth ^c   Cámara, Miguel ^c   Williams, Paul ^c  

^a WALTHAM CENTRE FOR PET NUTRITION   (United Kingdom)

^b WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTILITY; DELETION MUTANT; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; SWIMMING; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 45149125986     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06268.x     Document Type: Article

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