The VarS/VarA two-component system modulates the activity of the Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing transcriptional regulator HapR

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1620-1628

  Tsou, Amy M ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a   Cai, Tao ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CSRB; PROTEINASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR HAPR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TRANSPOSON; VARS VARA TWO COMPONENT SIGNALLING SYSTEM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTEIN KINASES; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 79958094065     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.046235-0     Document Type: Article

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