PrhA controls a novel regulatory pathway required for the specific induction of Ralstonia solanacearum hrp genes in the presence of plant cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 437-453

  Marenda, Marc ^a   Brito, Belen ^a   Callard, Didier ^a   Genin, Stéphane ^a   Barberis, Patrick ^a   Boucher, Christian ^a   Arlat, Matthieu ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COCULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REGULATOR GENE; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IRON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 0031963191     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00692.x     Document Type: Article

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