Photorhabdus: Towards a functional genomic analysis of a symbiont and pathogen

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 433-456

  Ffrench Constant, Richard ^a   Waterfield, Nicholas ^a   Daborn, Phillip ^a   Joyce, Susan ^a   Bennett, Helen ^a   Au, Candy ^a   Dowling, Andrea ^a   Boundy, Sam ^a   Reynolds, Stuart ^a   Clarke, David ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entomopathogenic nematode; Pathogenicity; Photorhabdus; Symbiosis; Xenorhabdus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PROTEIN CIPA; PROTEIN CIPB; PROTEIN LUXA; PROTEIN LUXB; PROTEIN LUXC; PROTEIN LUXD; PROTEIN MCF1; PROTEIN MCF2; PROTEIN TCA; PROTEIN TCB; PROTEIN TCC; PROTEIN TCD; PROTEINASE; PYOCIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; BLOOD CELL; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HOST; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOCINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INSECTS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, GENETIC; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PHOTORHABDUS; VERTEBRATA; XENORHABDUS; YERSINIA;

EID: 0037268543     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(02)00130-4     Document Type: Review

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