Regulatory targets of quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae: Evidence for two distinct HapR-binding motifs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2747-2756

  Tsou, Amy M ^a   Cai, Tao ^b   Liu, Zhi ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Kulkarni, Rahul V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HAPR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO HARVEYI; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 65849100009     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp121     Document Type: Article

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