Genetic and proteomic characterization of rpoB mutations and their effect on nematicidal activity in photorhabdus luminescens LN2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Qiu, Xuehong ^a   Yan, Xun ^a   Liu, Mingxing ^a   Han, Richou ^a  

^a Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DSBA PROTEIN; PROTEIN HLPA; PROTEIN NAMB; PROTEIN RHLE; PROTEIN RPLC; PROTEIN YGDH; PROTEIN YGGE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DOWN REGULATION; DSBA GENE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HETERORHABDITIS INDICA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INDEL MUTATION; INSECT; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; INTESTINE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NAMB GENE; NEMATICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; RHLE GENE; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHOTORHABDUS; PROTEOMICS; RHABDITOIDEA; RIFAMPIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84865077879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043114     Document Type: Article

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