Roles of LuxR in regulating extracellular alkaline serine protease A, extracellular polysaccharide and mobility of Vibrio alginolyticus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 155-162

  Rui, Haopeng ^a   Liu, Qin ^a   Ma, Yue ^a   Wang, Qiyao ^a   Zhang, Yuanxing ^a  

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

Author keywords

Collagenase; Extracellular protease; LuxRval; ProA; Quorum sensing; Vibrio alginolyticus

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE SERINE PROTEASE A; POLYSACCHARIDE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LOCOMOTION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

VIBRIO; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 47349113861     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01185.x     Document Type: Article

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