The phenolic vir gene inducer ferulic acid is O-demethylated by the VirH2 protein of an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 512-522

  Kalogeraki, Virginia S ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a   Eberhard, Anatol ^b   Madsen, Eugene L ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAFFEIC ACID; FERULIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HYDROPHILICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SUPERNATANT; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAFFEIC ACIDS; COUMARIC ACIDS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; VIR;

EID: 0032723466     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01617.x     Document Type: Article

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