Azospirillum brasilense produces the auxin-like phenylacetic acid by using the key enzyme for indole-3-acetic acid biosynthesis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1803-1810

  Somers, E ^a   Ptacek, D ^a   Gysegom, P ^a   Srinivasan, M ^b   Vanderleyden, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Hydro Research Park   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; FEEDBACK; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS; AUXINS; FEEDBACK REGULATION; GENE REGULATIONS;

MICROORGANISMS;

AUXIN; INDOLE 3 PYRUVATE DECARBOXYLASE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; PHENYLACETALDEHYDE; PHENYLACETIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLASMID; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CARBOXY-LYASES; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ERWINIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHENYLACETATES; PHENYLALANINE; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 17444381628     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.4.1803-1810.2005     Document Type: Article

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