A bacterial sensor of plant cell contact controls the transcriptional induction of Ralstonia solanacearum pathogenicity genes

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2304-2314

  Aldon, Didier ^a   Brito, Belen ^a   Boucher, Christian ^a   Genin, Stéphane ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Green fluorescent protein; hrp genes; Signal transduction; Type III secretion pathway

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 0034657096     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.10.2304     Document Type: Article

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