Exploiting a global regulator for small molecule discovery in Photorhabdus luminescens

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 659-665

  Kontnik, Renee ^a   Crawford, Jason M ^a   Clardy, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HEXA; STILBENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FAMILY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLITE; MOLECULE; MUTANT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; UPREGULATION; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAQUINONES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INSECTS; LARVA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PROLINE; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; STILBENES; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 77955019087     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb100117k     Document Type: Article

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