The Crc protein participates in down-regulation of the Lon gene to promote rhamnolipid production and rhl quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 526-547

  Yang, Nana ^a   Ding, Shuting ^a,b   Chen, Feifei ^a   Zhang, Xue ^a   Xia, Yongjie ^a   Di, Hongxia ^a   Cao, Qiao ^a   Deng, Xin ^c   Wu, Min ^d   Wong, Catherine C L ^e   Tian, Xiao Xu ^e   Yang, Cai Guang ^a   Zhao, Jing ^b   Lan, Lefu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; CRC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN HFQ; PROTEINASE; PROTIEN LON; RHAMNOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CRC PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; GLYCOLIPID; HOST FACTOR 1; LIGASE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RHLI PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRC GENE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTUCE; LIPOGENESIS; LON GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; RHL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

LACTUCA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; LIGASES; PROTEASE LA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEOLYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84928413978     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12954     Document Type: Article

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