Quorum-sensing regulators in Gram-positive bacteria: 'cherchez le peptide'

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 181-184

  Monnet, V ^a,b   Gardan, R ^a,b  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; NPRR TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR; OPP TRANSPORTER; PLCR TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR; PRGX TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR; RAP TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REGULATED BY A PHR PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIOCIN;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMS GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PAPR GENE; PHRA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUORUM SENSING; RGG GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHP GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIOCINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; QUORUM SENSING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84935505589     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13060     Document Type: Note

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