Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Production Is More Common among Plant-Associated Pseudomonas spp. than among Soilborne Pseudomonas spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1198-1209

  Elasri, Miena ^a   Delorme, Sandrine ^b   Lemanceau, Philippe ^b   Stewart, Gordon ^c   Laue, Bridget ^c   Glickmann, Eric ^a   Oger, Phil M ^a   Dessaux, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; HOMOSERINE LACTONE; LYASE; PSMI PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0035287496     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.3.1198-1209.2001     Document Type: Article

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