Mobility of the Native Bacillus subtilis Conjugative Plasmid pLS20 Is Regulated by Intercellular Signaling

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Praveen K ^a   Ramachandran, Gayetri ^a   Ramos Ruiz, Ricardo ^b   Peiró Pastor, Ramón ^a   Abia, David ^a   Wu, Ling J ^c   Meijer, Wilfried J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio de Genómica   (Spain)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINYLLYSYLGLYCYLMETHIONYLTYROSINE; GLUTAMYLLYSYLALANYLISOLEUCYLISOLEUCINE; PHEROMONE; POLYPEPTIDE; RAP PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELLULAR SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHRLS20 GENE; PLASMID; PLS20 GENE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAPI GENE; RAPLS20 GENE; RCOLS20 GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CELL MOTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL MOVEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84887265861     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003892     Document Type: Article

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