Novel mutants of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora defective in the production of plant cell wall degrading enzymes generated by Mu transpososome-mediated insertion mutagenesis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-99

  Laasik, Eve ^a   Ojarand, Merli ^a   Pajunen, Maria ^b   Savilahti, Harri ^b   Mäe, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Viikki Biocenter   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Mutants; Phage Mu; Phytopathogenic bacteria; Transposon; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; CELL WALL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU; ERWINIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. CAROTOVORUM; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 12844252623     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.11.045     Document Type: Article

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