Regulation of resistance to copper in Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vesicatoria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 782-789

  Voloudakis, Andreas E ^a,b   Reignier, Therese M ^a   Cooksey, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONING; COPPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; COPPER RESISTANCE GENES; GENOMIC SEQUENCE DATABASE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS (XAC);

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

COPPER; KANAMYCIN;

BACTERIUM; COPPER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; XANTHOMONAS VESICATORIA; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COPPER; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XANTHOMONAS VESICATORIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS PV. CITRI; XANTHOMONAS AXONOPODIS PV. VESICATORIA; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS VESICATORIA; XYLELLA FASTIDIOSA;

EID: 13544269335     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.782-789.2005     Document Type: Article

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