Rhizobial homologs of the fatty acid transporter FadL facilitate perception of long-chain acyl-homoserine lactone signals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 29, 2014, Pages 10702-10707

  Krol, Elizaveta ^a   Becker, Anke ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autosignaling; Facilitated diffusion; Rhizobiaceae

Indexed keywords

FADL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID TRANSPORTER; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; OLEIC ACID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH; GROWTH CURVE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AUTOSIGNALING; FACILITATED DIFFUSION; RHIZOBIACEAE;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLEIC ACID; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 84904699254     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404929111     Document Type: Article

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