The phosphotransferase VanU represses expression of four qrr genes antagonizing VanO-mediated quorum-sensing regulation in Vibrio anguillarum

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3324-3339

  Weber, Barbara ^a   Lindell, Kristoffer ^a   Qaidi, Samir El ^a   Hjerde, Erik ^b   Willassen, Nils Peder ^b   Milton, Debra L ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CHAPERONE; HFQ PROTEIN; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE VANU; QRR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANO PROTEIN; VANT PROTEIN;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; RNA STABILITY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO;

EID: 82555191275     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051011-0     Document Type: Article

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