Inactivation of the GacA response regulator in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5 has far-reaching transcriptomic consequences

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 899-915

  Hassan, Karl A ^a   Johnson, Aaron ^b   Shaffer, Brenda T ^c   Ren, Qinghu ^b   Kidarsa, Teresa A ^c   Elbourne, Liam D H ^a   Hartney, Sierra ^c   Duboy, Robert ^b   Goebel, Neal C ^d   Zabriskie, T Mark ^d   Paulsen, Ian T ^a,b   Loper, Joyce E ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS PF-5;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; GACA PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 77954629851     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02134.x     Document Type: Article

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