The Erwinia chrysanthemi phoP-phoQ operon plays an important role in growth at low pH, virulence and bacterial survival in plant tissue

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 347-357

  Llama Palacios, Arancha ^a   López Solanilla, Emilia ^a   Poza Carrión, César ^a   García Olmedo, Francisco ^a   Rodríguez Palenzuela, Pablo ^a  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM;

ACIDITY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APOPLAST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE GUS; GENE PHOQ; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PLANTS; POLYGALACTURONASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICHORIUM INTYBUS; ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PYRUS COMMUNIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSPOSONS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0038162593     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03583.x     Document Type: Article

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