Complex quorum-sensing regulatory systems regulate bacterial growth and symbiotic nodulation in Mesorhizobium tianshanense

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-289

  Cao, Huijuan ^a   Yang, Menghua ^a   Zheng, Huiming ^a   Zhang, Jiang ^a   Zhong, Zengtao ^b   Zhu, Jun ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Autoinducer synthase; MarR family; Mesorhizobium tianshanense; Nodulation

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INDUCED MUTATION; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE QUORUM SENSIN GENE R; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE QUORUM SENSING GENE I; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE QUORUM SENSING GENE S; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; SYMBIOSIS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; QUORUM SENSING; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; HELICHRYSUM PETIOLARE; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 61549086523     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-008-0454-7     Document Type: Article

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