Analysis of activator and repressor functions reveals the requirements for transcriptional control by LuxR, the master regulator of quorum sensing in Vibrio harveyi.

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Published in MBio on July 09, 2013

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Julia C van Kessel1, Luke E Ulrich, Igor B Zhulin, Bonnie L Bassler

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1: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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