Identification and characterization of three novel EsaI/EsaR quorum-sensing controlled stewartan exopolysaccharide biosynthetic genes in Pantoea stewartii ssp. stewartii

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 903-913

  Carlier, Aurélien ^a   Burbank, Lindsey ^b   Von Bodman, Susanne B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESAL PROTEIN; ESAR PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; STEWARTAN EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PANTOEA; PANTOEA STEWARTII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WCE I GENE; WCE II GENE; WCE III GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; PANTOEA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

PANTOEA STEWARTII;

EID: 70449588866     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06906.x     Document Type: Article

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