Dissection of Quorum-Sensing Genes in Burkholderia glumae Reveals Non-Canonical Regulation and the New Regulatory Gene tofM for Toxoflavin Production

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Ruoxi ^a   Barphagha, Inderjit K ^a   Karki, Hari S ^a   Ham, Jong Hyun ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; XANTHOTHRICIN;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLUMEI; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; EXPRESSION VECTOR; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FUSCOVAGINAE; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; RICE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BURKHOLDERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PYRIMIDINONES; QUORUM SENSING; TRIAZINES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE; LURIA; PSEUDOMONAS FUSCOVAGINAE;

EID: 84871444274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052150     Document Type: Article

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