Transcriptional regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa rhlR: Role of the CRP orthologue Vfr (virulence factor regulator) and quorum-sensing regulators LasR and RhlR

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2545-2555

  Croda García, Gerardo ^a   Grosso Becerra, Victoria ^a   Gonzalez Valdez, Abigail ^a   Servín González, Luis ^a   Soberón Chávez, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; DNA; LACTONE; MESSENGER RNA; N (3 OXODODECANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LASR GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; QUORUM SENSING; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIAB OPERON; RHIR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 80052355251     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.050161-0     Document Type: Article

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