A Bacillus subtilis sensor kinase involved in triggering biofilm formation on the roots of tomato plants

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 418-430

  Chen, Yun ^a,c   Cao, Shugeng ^b   Chai, Yunrong ^a   Clardy, Jon ^b   Kolter, Roberto ^b   Guo, Jian Hua ^c,d   Losick, Richard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Engineering Center of Bioresource Pesticide in Jiangsu Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CITRIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID; GLUCOSE; KIND PROTEIN; MALIC ACID; MALTOSE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; SENSOR KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMINATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLANT EXUDATE; PLANT ROOT; PLANTLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPORTER GENE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALATES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84864091339     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08109.x     Document Type: Article

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