Proteomic and transcriptomic characterization of a virulence-deficient phosphatidylcholine-negative Agrobacterium tumefaciens mutant

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 283, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 575-589

  Klüsener, Sonja ^a   Hacker, Stephanie ^a   Tsai, Yun Long ^b   Bandow, Julia E ^a   Gust, Ronald ^c   Lai, Erh Min ^b   Narberhaus, Franz ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Proteobacterium; Agrobacterium; Membrane lipids; Phosphatidylcholine; Plant microbe interaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN FLAA; PROTEIN FLAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEOME; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77952787655     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-010-0542-7     Document Type: Article

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