The Pseudomonas siderophore quinolobactin is synthesized from xanthurenic acid, an intermediate of the kynurenine pathway

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 371-384

  Matthijs, Sandra ^a   Baysse, Christine ^a,e   Koedam, Nico ^a   Tehrani, Kourosh Abbaspour ^b   Verheyden, Lieve ^a,b   Budzikiewicz, Herbert ^c   Schäfer, Mathias ^c   Hoorelbeke, Bart ^a   Meyer, Jean Marie ^d   De Greve, Henri ^a   Cornelis, Pierre ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; KYNURENINE; PYRIDINE 2,6 BIS(THIOCARBOXYLIC ACID); QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; QUINOLOBACTIN; SIDEROPHORE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHURENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; KYNURENINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; QUINOLINES; SIDEROPHORES; TRYPTOPHAN; XANTHURENATES;

EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 11144357935     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.03999.x     Document Type: Article

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