The long-chain fatty acid sensor, PsrA, modulates the expression of rpoS and the type III secretion exsCEBA operon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-136

  Kang, Yun ^a   Lunin, Vladimir V ^b   Skarina, Tatiana ^c   Savchenko, Alexei ^c   Schurr, Michael J ^d   Hoang, Tung T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTONE DERIVATIVE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; N (BUTYRYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEIN PSRA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SECRETION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; EXSC GENE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RPOS GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 67649452128     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06757.x     Document Type: Article

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