Lon protease influences antibiotic production and UV tolerance of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2718-2725

  Whistler, Cheryl A ^a   Stockwell, Virginia O ^a   Loper, Joyce E ^a,b,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL; STRESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOLS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROTEASE LA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PYRROLES; RADIATION TOLERANCE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS PF-5;

EID: 0033944425     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.7.2718-2725.2000     Document Type: Article

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