A Lux-like Quorum Sensing System in the Extreme Acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
The genome of the acidophilic, proteobacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, contains linked but divergently oriented genes, termed afeI and afeR, whose predicted protein products are significantly similar to the LuxI and LuxR families of proteins. A possible promoter and Lux box are predicted ups...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2005-01-01
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| Series: | Biological Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602005000200018 |