SinR controls enterotoxin expression in Bacillus thuringiensis biofilms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fagerlund, Annette ^a   Dubois, Thomas ^b   Økstad, Ole Andreas ^a   Verplaetse, Emilie ^b   Gilois, Nathalie ^b   Bennaceur, Imène ^b   Perchat, Stéphane ^b   Gominet, Myriam ^c   Aymerich, Stéphane ^b   Kolstø, Anne Brit ^a   Lereclus, Didier ^b   Gohar, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; KURSTAKIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ABRB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HBL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PLCR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SINI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SINR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPO0A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CADAVER; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPS GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HBL GENE; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PLANKTON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULON; SURVIVAL; SWIMMING;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; REGULON;

EID: 84899737370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087532     Document Type: Article

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