Post-transcriptional activation of a diguanylate cyclase by quorum sensing small RNAs promotes biofilm formation in Vibrio cholerae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 989-1002

  Zhao, Xiaonan ^a   Koestler, Benjamin J ^b   Waters, Christopher M ^b   Hammer, Brian K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIGUANYLATE CYCLASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HAPR; PROTEIN QRR; PROTEIN VCA0939; RNA; SMALL RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BASE PAIRING; BIOFILM; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HAPR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QRR GENE; QUORUM SENSING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84883144675     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12325     Document Type: Article

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