Erwinia chrysanthemi requires a second iron transport route dependent of the siderophore achromobactin for extracellular growth and plant infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 261-275

  Franza, Thierry ^a   Mahé, Bruno ^a   Expert, Dominique ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHROMOBACTIN; FERRIC ION; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON COMPOUNDS; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PLANT DISEASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIDEROPHORES; VIOLA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 12344310625     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04383.x     Document Type: Article

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