Identification of specific in vivo-induced (ivi) genes in Yersinia ruckeri and analysis of ruckerbactin, a catecholate siderophore iron acquisition system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5199-5207

  Fernandez L ^a   Marquez, I ^b   Guijarro, J A ^a,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Spain)

^b Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; DNA; IRON; STRAIN;

FISH; GENE CLUSTERS; PATHOGENESIS;

GENES;

ENTEROCHELIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; RUCKERBACTIN; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIABACTIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTC GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEPG GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; IRON TRANSPORT; IVI GENE; LD 50; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RUCC GENE; RUPG GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA RUCKERI;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA RUCKERI;

EID: 4644273625     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5199-5207.2004     Document Type: Article

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