Identification of a new quorum-sensing-controlled virulence factor in Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica secreted via the type II targeting pathway

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 334-342

  Corbett, Mark ^a   Virtue, Sam ^a   Bell, Kenneth ^b   Birch, Paul ^b   Burr, Tom ^a   Hyman, Lysbeth ^b   Lilley, Kathryn ^a   Poock, Susannah ^a   Toth, Ian ^b   Salmond, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PH; POTATO; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ERWINIA; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 20144384250     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-0334     Document Type: Article

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