Autoinduction of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol biosynthesis in the biocontrol agent Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 and repression by the bacterial metabolites salicylate and pyoluteorin

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1215-1225

  Schnider Keel, Ursula ^a   Seematter, Arnaud ^a   Maurhofer, Monika ^b   Blumer, Caroline ^a   Duffy, Brion ^b   Gigot Bonnefoy, Cécile ^a   Reimmann, Cornelia ^a   Notz, Regina ^b   Défago, Geneviève ^b   Haas, Dieter ^a   Keel, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; FUSARIC ACID; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; PHLOROGLUCINOL; PYOLUTEORIN; SALICYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; FUSARIC ACID; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOLS; PHLOROGLUCINOL; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PYRROLES; SALICYLATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0033974559     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.5.1215-1225.2000     Document Type: Article

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