Broad-host-range expression vectors with tightly regulated promoters and their use to examine the influence of TraR and TraM expression on Ti plasmid quorum sensing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 5053-5062

  Khan, Sharik R ^a   Gaines, Jennifer ^b   Roop II, R Martin ^b   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONED GENES; EXPRESSION VECTORS; PRECISE CONTROL; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATED PROMOTERS;

VECTORS;

BACTERIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RANGE; PLASMID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; PLANT TUMOR-INDUCING PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 50049086448     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01098-08     Document Type: Article

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