Quorum sensing and the LysR-type transcriptional activator ToxR regulate toxoflavin biosynthesis and transport in Burkholderia glumae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 921-934

  Kim, Jinwoo ^a   Kim, Jung Gun ^a   Kang, Yongsung ^a   Jang, Ji Youn ^a   Jog, Geetanjali J ^b   Lim, Jae Yun ^a   Kim, Suhyun ^a   Suga, Hiroaki ^b   Nagamatsu, Tomohisa ^c   Hwang, Ingyu ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N HEXANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PLANT TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TOXJ; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TOXR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOTHRICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL WILT; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RICE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BURKHOLDERIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OPERON; ORYZA SATIVA; PYRIMIDINONES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIAZINES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLUMAE; LATEOLABRAX JAPONICUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 8544231380     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04338.x     Document Type: Article

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