LuxR-family 'solos': Bachelor sensors/regulators of signalling molecules

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1377-1385

  Subramoni, Sujatha ^a   Venturi, Vittorio ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; HOMOSERINE LACTONE; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

CELL DENSITY; ETHOLOGY; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 66849113516     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.026849-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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