Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is an acid-induced, chromosomally encoded virulence factor in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6039-6045

  Liu, Pu ^a   Wood, Derek ^a,b   Nester, Eugene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOSYRINGONE; ACID; CARBON; GLUCOSE; OXALOACETIC ACID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); SUCCINIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATALYSIS; CHVG GENE; CHVI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DECARBOXYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PCKA GENE; PH; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO; VIR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (ATP); RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; VIR;

EID: 24344461360     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.17.6039-6045.2005     Document Type: Article

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