Bioactive and structural metabolites of Pseudomonas and Burkholderia species causal agents of cultivated mushrooms diseases

Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 2008, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-112

  Andolfi, Anna ^a   Cimmino, Alessio ^a   Lo Cantore, Pietro ^b   Iacobellis, Nicola Sante ^b   Evidente, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Cultivated mushrooms and bacterial diseases; Exopolysaccharides and lipo polysaccharides; Lipodepsipetides; Mycopathogenic bacteria; P. reactans and Burkholderia gladioli pv. agaricicola; Permeabilising effects on membranes; Pseudomonas tolaasii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DEPSIPEPTIDE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPID A; TOLAASIN A; TOLAASIN B; TOLAASIN C; TOLAASIN D; TOLAASIN E; TOLAASIN I; TOLAASIN II; WHITE LINE INDUCING PRINCIPLE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA GLADIOLI; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS REACTANS; PSEUDOMONAS TOLAASII; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 77953371598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1177391X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1177391x0800200004     Document Type: Article

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