CorA, the magnesium/nickel/cobalt transporter, affects virulence and extracellular enzyme production in the soft rot pathogen Pectobacterium carotovorum

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-71

  Kersey, Caleb M ^a   Agyemang, Paul A ^a   Dumenyo, C Korsi ^a  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COBALT; ENZYME; MUTANT PROTEIN; PECTATE LYASE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARROT; CELERY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APIUM GRAVEOLENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COBALT; DAUCUS CAROTA; ENZYMES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 83055188381     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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