Metabolic adaptation of Ralstonia solanacearum during plant infection: A methionine biosynthesis case study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Plener, Laure ^a   Boistard, Pierre ^a   González, Adriana ^a   Boucher, Christian ^a   Genin, Stéphane ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HRPG PROTEIN; METE PROTEIN; METH PROTEIN; METHIONINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; METE GENE; METH GENE; METR GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PLANT CELLS; PLANT DISEASES; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VITAMIN B 12;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 84861205383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036877     Document Type: Article

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