Signal quenching, detoxification and mineralization of vir gene-inducing phenolics by the VirH2 protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1103-1115

  Brencic, Anja ^a   Eberhard, Anatol ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOSYRINGONE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; O DEMETHYLASE; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; VANILLIC ACID; VANILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DEMETHYLATION; DETOXIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; WILD TYPE;

ACETOPHENONES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZALDEHYDES; BENZYL ALCOHOLS; COUMARIC ACIDS; GALLIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACIDS; KINETICS; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES, O-DEMETHYLATING; PHENOLS; PLANT TUMORS; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VANILLIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ILEX COOKII; NEGIBACTERIA; VIR;

EID: 1442300828     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03887.x     Document Type: Article

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