The role of luxS in the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora is limited to metabolism and does not involve quorum sensing

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1284-1297

  Rezzonico, Fabio ^a,b   Duffy, Brion ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Sulfur metabolism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; LUXS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LYASE; N OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N-OCTANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PEAR; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOMOSERINE; LACTONES; MALUS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PYRUS; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NEGIBACTERIA; PYRUS; ROSACEAE;

EID: 34548669355     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-10-1284     Document Type: Article

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