Antagonistic Rgg regulators mediate quorum sensing via competitive DNA binding in streptococcus pyogenes

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lasarre, Breah ^a   Aggarwal, Chaitanya ^b   Federle, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN RGG2; PROTEIN RGG3; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 2; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 3; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 84872136872     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00333-12     Document Type: Article

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