A single locus from the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens inhibits activated Manduca sexta phenoloxidase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-176

  Eleftherianos, Ioannis ^a,b   Waterfield, Nicholas R ^b   Bone, Peter ^b   Boundy, Sam ^b   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^c   Reynolds, Stuart E ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insect immunity; Manduca sexta; Phenoloxidase; Photorhabdus luminescens

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MANDUCA SEXTA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE LIBRARY; MANDUCA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHOTORHABDUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 62549119972     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01523.x     Document Type: Article

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