The sinorhizobium meliloti emrab efflux system is regulated by flavonoids through a tetR-like regulator (EmrR)

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 379-387

  Rossbach, Silvia ^a,b   Kunze, Kati ^a   Albert, Susann ^a   Zehner, Susanne ^a   Göttfert, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; FLAVONOID; LUTEOLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUTEOLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 84896778314     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-13-0282-R     Document Type: Article

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