A Burkholderia cenocepacia orphan LuxR homolog is involved in quorum-sensing regulation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2447-2460

  Malott, Rebecca J ^a,c   O'Grady, Eoin P ^a   Toller, Jessica ^b   Inhülsen, Silja ^b   Eberl, Leo ^b   Sokol, Pamela A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CCIR PROTEIN; CEPR PROTEIN; CEPR2 PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUORUM SENSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BURKHOLDERIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 65249139867     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01746-08     Document Type: Article

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