Nucleotide sequence, functional characterization and evolution of pFKN, a virulence plasmid in Pseudomonas syringae pathovar maculicola

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1545-1562

  Rohmer, Laurence ^a   Kjemtrup, Susanne ^a,c   Marchesini, Patrizia ^a,c   Dangl, Jeffery L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Clinical Data Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. MACULICOLA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037346284     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03402.x     Document Type: Article

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