Photobactin: A catechol siderophore produced by Photorhabdus luminescens, an entomopathogen mutually associated with Heterorhabditis bacteriophora NC1 nematodes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4706-4713

  Ciche, Todd A ^a,d   Blackburn, Michael ^b   Carney, John R ^c   Ensign, Jerald C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c KOSAN BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

NEMATODES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CATECHOL DERIVATIVE; PHOTOBACTIN; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; NEMATODE; SIDEROPHORE;

ARTICLE; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; GENE INSERTION; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; INSECTS; NEMATODA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PHOTORHABDUS; SIDEROPHORES; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HETERORHABDITIS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; INSECTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; TRANSPOSONS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0043031149     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4706-4713.2003     Document Type: Article

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