The N-acetyl-d-glucosamine repressor NagC of Vibrio fischeri facilitates colonization of Euprymna scolopes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 894-903

  Miyashiro, Tim ^a   Klein, Will ^a   Oehlert, Dane ^a   Cao, Xiaodan ^a,b   Schwartzman, Julia ^a   Ruby, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE PHOSPHATE; NAGC PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUID; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; DECAPODIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CEPHALOPODA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 80855150849     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07858.x     Document Type: Article

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