Distribution and replication of the pathogenicity plasmid pPATH in diverse populations of the gall-forming bacterium Pantoea agglomerans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7552-7561

  Weinthal, Dan M ^a,b   Barash, Isaac ^b   Panijel, Mary ^b   Valinsky, Lea ^c   Gaba, Victor ^a   Manulis Sasson, Shulamit ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GELATION; MOS CAPACITORS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

BIOSYNTHETIC GENES; DNA TYPING; ERWINIA; GENE CLUSTERING; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PLASMID PROTEINS; PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; XANTHOMONAS;

GENES;

BACTERIUM; COMMENSAL; GALL; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS PATHOVAR BETAE; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS PATHOVAR GYPSOPHILAE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PLASMID PPATH; PSEUDOMONAS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPLICON; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; XANTHOMONAS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PANTOEA; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PSEUDOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANTOEA; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 38449090912     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01511-07     Document Type: Article

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