Functional analysis of Burkholderia cepacia genes bceD and bceF, encoding a phospholyrosine phosphatase and a tyrosine autokinase, respectively: Role in exopolysaccharide biosynthesis and biofilm formation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 524-534

  Ferreira, Ana S ^a   Leitão, Jorge H ^a   Sousa, Sílvia A ^a   Cosme, Ana M ^a   Sá Correia, Isabel ^a   Moreira, Leonilde M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE (EPS); LYSINE; P-NITROPHENYL PHOSPHATE (PNPP); PHENOTYPES;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; BIOASSAY; BIOFILMS; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOSYNTHESIS; MUTAGENESIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS;

GENES;

4 NITROPHENYL PHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BINDING PROTEIN; BIOPOLYMER; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYSINE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; TYROSINE AUTOKINASE; TYROSINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOFILM; ENZYME; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BCED GENE; BCEF GENE; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX;

EID: 33846443658     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01450-06     Document Type: Article

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