Tol-Pal proteins are critical cell envelope components of Erwinia chrysanthemi affecting cell morphology and virulence

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3337-3347

  Dubuisson, Jean François ^a   Vianney, Anne ^a   Hugouvieux Cotte Pattat, Nicole ^a   Lazzaroni, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILE SALT; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PECTATE LYASE; PROTEIN PAL; PROTEIN TOLA; PROTEIN TOLB; PROTEIN TOLQ; PROTEIN YBGC; PROTEIN YBGF; SUGAR; TOL PAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROTECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICORY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICHORIUM INTYBUS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GOSSWEILERODENDRON BALSAMIFERUM; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 27144529152     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28237-0     Document Type: Article

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