The sypA, sypB, and sypC synthetase genes encode twenty-two modules involved in the nonribosomal peptide synthesis of syringopeptin by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B301D

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 271-280

  Scholz Schroeder, Brenda K ^a   Soule, Jonathan D ^a   Gross, Dennis C ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lipopeptide phytotoxin; Thiotemplate mechanism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLOPEPTIDE; LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037384426     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.4.271     Document Type: Article

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