Identification of Xenorhabdus nematophila genes required for mutualistic colonization of Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1337-1353

  Heungens, Kurt ^a,b   Cowles, Charles E ^a   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Centrum voor Landbouwkundig Onderzoek Gent CLO / Centre de Recherches Agronomiques Gand   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NEMATODE INTESTINE LOCALIZATION PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN LRP; PROTEIN RPOE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COLONY FORMATION; DATA BASE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; INTESTINE; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; TRANSPOSON; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; RHABDITIDA; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; TRANSPOSONS; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 0036042858     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03100.x     Document Type: Article

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