The Burkholderia cenocepacia sensor kinase hybrid AtsR is a global regulator modulating quorum-sensing signalling

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 372-385

  Aubert, Daniel F ^a   O'Grady, Eoin P ^b   Hamad, Mohamad A ^a   Sokol, Pamela A ^b   Valvano, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTONE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZMPA PROTEIN, BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; ZMPB ENZYME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LACTONES; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA;

EID: 84873121380     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02828.x     Document Type: Article

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