The CtrA phosphorelay integrates differentiation and communication in the marine alphaproteobacterium Dinoroseobacter shibae

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a   Ziesche, Lisa ^b   Frank, Oliver ^c   Michael, Victoria ^c   Martin, Madeleine ^a   Petersen, Jörn ^c   Schulz, Stefan ^b   Wagner Döbler, Irene ^a   Tomasch, Jürgen ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTRA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; LUXI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; CCKA GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHPI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTRA GENE; DINOROSEOBACTER SHIBAE; GENE EXPRESSION; LUXL2 GENE; LUXL3 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; RHIZOBIACEAE; ROSEOBACTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; RHODOBACTERACEAE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; DINOROSEOBACTER SHIBAE; ROSEOBACTER;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUORUM SENSING; RHODOBACTERACEAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84893647984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-130     Document Type: Article

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