The CckA-ChpT-CtrA Phosphorelay System Is Regulated by Quorum Sensing and Controls Flagellar Motility in the Marine Sponge Symbiont Ruegeria sp. KLH11

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zan, Jindong ^a   Heindl, Jason E ^b   Liu, Yue ^a   Fuqua, Clay ^b   Hill, Russell T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOGENESIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CCKA GENE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHPT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTRA GENE; FLAGELLUM; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUORUM SENSING; RHODOBACTERACEAE; RUEGERIA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BASE SEQUENCE; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOVEMENT; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PORIFERA; PROTEIN KINASES; QUORUM SENSING; RHODOBACTERACEAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; RHODOBACTERALES; ROSEOBACTER; RUEGERIA;

EID: 84879336564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066346     Document Type: Article

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