Roles of a solo LuxR in the biological control agent Lysobacter enzymogenes strain OH11

Phytopathology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 224-231

  Qian, Guoliang ^a   Xu, Feifei ^a   Venturi, Vittorio ^b   Du, Liangcheng ^c   Liu, Fengquan ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; MELANIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LYSOBACTER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PYTHIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; LYSOBACTER; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYTHIUM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84894238955     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-07-13-0188-R     Document Type: Article

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