Cloning and characterizations of the Serratia marcescens metK and pfs genes involved in AI-2-dependent quorum-sensing system

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 315, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 25-30

  Zhu, Hu ^a,b   Shen, Ya Ling ^a   Wei, Dong Zhi ^a   Zhu, Jia Wen ^c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloning; Quorum sensing; S adenosylhomocysteine nucleosidase; S adenosylmethionine synthetase; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE NUCLEOSIDASE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; NUCLEOSIDASE; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATENT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BORATES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUORUM SENSING; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 46749147107     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: 15734919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-008-9784-7     Document Type: Article

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