The cell density-dependent expression of stewartan exopolysaccharide in Pantoea stewartii ssp. stewartii is a function of EsaR-mediated repression of the rcsA gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 189-203

  Minogue, Timothy D ^a   Carlier, Aurelien L ^a   Koutsoudis, Maria D ^a   Von Bodman, Susanne B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GENOMIC DNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ESAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DENSITY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA; PANTOEA STEWARTII; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RCSA GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANTOEA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 16244403932     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04529.x     Document Type: Article

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