The phytoalexin-inducible multidrug efflux pump AcrAB contributes to virulence in the fire blight pathogen, Erwinia amylovora

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-54

  Burse, Antje ^a   Weingart, Helge ^a   Ullrich, Matthias S ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

E. coli KAM3; Hypersensitive response; Minimal inhibitory concentration; RND superfamily; TetR family

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PYRUS COMMUNIS; ROSACEAE;

ACRA PROTEIN, E COLI; ACRE PROTEIN, E COLI; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NARINGENIN; PHLORETIN; PHYTOALEXINS; PLANT EXTRACT; TERPENE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APPLE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAVANONES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MALUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHLORETIN; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TERPENES; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 1642506329     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.1.43     Document Type: Article

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