The effect of specific rhlA-las-box mutations on DNA binding and gene activation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum-sensing transcriptional regulators RhlR and LasR

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 356, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 217-225

  González Valdez, Abigail ^a   Servín González, Luis ^a   Juárez, Katy ^a   Hernandez Aligio, Alberto ^a   Soberón Chávez, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Consensus sequences; Las box mutations; Protein DNA interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LASR GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RHLA GENE; RHLR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LASR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PROTEIN BINDING; RHLR PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84904768986     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12505     Document Type: Article

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