rsmC of the soft-rotting bacterium Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora negatively controls extracellular enzyme and harpin(Ecc) production and virulence by modulating levels of regulatory RNA (rsmB) and RNA-binding protein (RsmA)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 6042-6052

  Cui, Yaya ^a   Mukherjee, Asita ^a   Dumenyo, C Korsi ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Chatterjee, Arun K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; PECTATE LYASE; POLYGALACTURONASE; PROTEINASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE FUSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. CAROTOVORUM;

EID: 0032820307     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.19.6042-6052.1999     Document Type: Article

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