Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 HopPtoM (CEL ORF3) is important for lesion formation but not growth in tomato and is secreted and translocated by the Hrp type III secretion system in a chaperone-dependent manner

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1239-1251

  Badel, Jorge L ^a   Nomura, Kinya ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Sruti ^b   Shimizu, Rena ^a   Collmer, Alan ^a   He, Sheng Yang ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HOST CELL; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOMATO; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS; SIGMA FACTOR; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TOMATO;

EID: 0141789821     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03647.x     Document Type: Article

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