Growth phase and temperature influence promoter activity; Transcript abundance, and protein stability during biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas sringae phytotoxin coronatine

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1360-1367

  Budde, Ina P ^a   Rohde, Bettina H ^a   Bender, Carol L ^b   Ullrich, Matthias S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CORONATINE; PLANT TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA;

EID: 0031919202     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.6.1360-1367.1998     Document Type: Article

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