The PmrA-PmrB two-component system responding to acidic pH and iron controls virulence in the plant pathogen Erwinia carotovora ssp. carotovora

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 795-807

  Hyytiäinen, Heidi ^a   Sjöblom, Solveig ^a   Palomäki, Tiina ^a   Tuikkala, Anne ^a   Palva, E Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; POLYMYXIN B;

ACIDITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT CELL; PLANT DISEASE; PMRA GENE; PMRB GENE; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMYXIN B; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 18544408269     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03729.x     Document Type: Article

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