Hfq influences multiple transport systems and virulence in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 5209-5217

  Wilms, Ina ^a   Möller, Philip ^a   Stock, Anna Maria ^a   Gurski, Rosemarie ^a   Lai, Erh Min ^b   Narberhaus, Franz ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ABC TRANSPORTER; BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROLINE; PROTEIN HFQ; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN GALL; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 84868322857     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00510-12     Document Type: Article

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