Antitoxin MqsA represses curli formation through the master biofilm regulator CsgD

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Soo, Valerie W C ^a   Wood, Thomas K ^a,b  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CSGA PROTEIN, E COLI; CSGB PROTEIN, E COLI; CSGD PROTEIN, E COLI; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MQSA PROTEIN, E COLI; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84887850298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03186     Document Type: Article

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