Biosynthetic and regulatory elements involved in the production of the siderophore vanchrobactin in Vibrio anguillarum

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1400-1413

  Balado, Miguel ^a   Osorio, Carlos R ^a   Lemos, Manuel L ^a  

^a Santiago de Compostela Spain   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY 7 PHOSPHOHEPTULONATE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN FVTA; PROTEIN VABD; PROTEIN VABG; PROTEIN VABR; SIDEROPHORE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; IRON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPANTETHEINYL TRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SIDEROPHORE RECEPTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; REPORTER GENE; VIBRIO;

LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM;

3-DEOXY-7-PHOSPHOHEPTULONATE SYNTHASE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; IRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS); VIBRIO;

EID: 46249094254     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/016618-0     Document Type: Article

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