Thermo-responsive expression and differential secretion of the extracellular enzyme levansucrase in the plant pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-185

  Li, Hongqiao ^a,b   Schenk, Alexander ^a   Srivastava, Abhishek ^a   Zhurina, Daria ^a   Ullrich, Matthias S ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Levansucrase; Protein secretion

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LEVANSUCRASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNODETECTION; LSCB GENE; LSCC GENE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SOYBEANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA;

EID: 33751257152     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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