The plant pathogen Pseudomonas fuscovaginae contains two conserved quorum sensing systems involved in virulence and negatively regulated by RsaL and the novel regulator RsaM

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-162

  Mattiuzzo, Maura ^a   Bertani, Iris ^a   Ferluga, Sara ^a   Cabrio, Laura ^a   Bigirimana, Joseph ^a   Guarnaccia, Corrado ^a   Pongor, Sandor ^a   Maraite, Henri ^b   Venturi, Vittorio ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; HOMOSERINE; N (3 OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N-(3-OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS; QUORUM SENSING; RICE; VIRULENCE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOMOSERINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FUSCOVAGINAE;

EID: 78650770267     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02316.x     Document Type: Article

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