Control of the Ralstonia solanacearum Type III secretion system (Hrp) genes by the global virulence regulator PhcA

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2077-2081

  Genin, Stéphane ^a   Brito, Belen ^a,c   Denny, Timothy P ^b   Boucher, Christian ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial wilt disease; Hypersensitive response; Pathogenicity; Quorum sensing; Regulation

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PROTEIN PHCA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 16344391376     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.02.058     Document Type: Article

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