LuxR solos in Photorhabdus species

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Brameyer, Sophie ^a   Kresovic, Darko ^b   Bode, Helge B ^b   Heermann, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell cell communication; Entomopathogenic bacteria; LuxR solos; Quorum quenching; Quorum sensing

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; CARBOXYLESTERASE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE DERIVATIVE; LUXR AUTOINDUCER BINDING PROTEINS; N-ACYL HOMOSERINE LACTONASE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SIGNALING ASSAY; DNA BINDING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYLOGENY; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84915789322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00166     Document Type: Article

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