A New Transcriptional Repressor of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing Receptor Gene lasR

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Longo, Francesca ^a   Rampioni, Giordano ^a   Bondì, Roslen ^a   Imperi, Francesco ^b   Fimia, Gian Maria ^c   Visca, Paolo ^a   Zennaro, Elisabetta ^a   Leoni, Livia ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTASE; PROTEINASE; PYOCYANINE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IASR GENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84879823919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069554     Document Type: Article

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