Citrate synthase mutants of Agrobacterium are attenuated in virulence and display reduced vir gene induction

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4844-4852

  Suksomtip, Maneewan ^a,b   Liu, Pu ^a   Anderson, Tamara ^a,c   Tungpradabkul, Sumalee ^a,b   Wood, Derek W ^a,d   Nester, Eugene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CLONE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH RATE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM; TUMOR VOLUME; VIR GENE; VIRG GENE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SINORHIZOBIUM; VIR;

EID: 21844459966     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.14.4844-4852.2005     Document Type: Article

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