An orphan sensor kinase controls quinolone signal production via MexT in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 536-547

  Zaoui, Caroline ^a   Overhage, Jörg ^a   Löns, Dagmar ^a   Zimmermann, Ariane ^a   Müsken, Mathias ^a,b   Bielecki, Piotr ^b   Pustelny, Christian ^a   Becker, Tanja ^a   Nimtz, Manfred ^a   Häussler, Susanne ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ALKYL 4(1H)QUINOLONE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEXT PROTEIN; ORPHAN SENSOR KINASE; PYOCYANINE; QUINOLONE; RHAMNOLIPID; UBIQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME MECHANISM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOLIPIDS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYOCYANINE; QUINOLONES; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UBIQUINONE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84856041435     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07947.x     Document Type: Article

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