Recruitment and rearrangement of three different genetic determinants into a conjugative plasmid increase copper resistance in pseudomonas syringae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1028-1033

  Gutiérrez Barranquero, José A ^a   de Vicente, Antonio ^a   Carrión, Víctor J ^a   Sundin, George W ^b   Cazorla, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ORGANIZATION; PLANT PATHOGEN; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; Q-RT-PCR; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR;

BACTERIA; DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

COPPER;

BACTERIAL DNA; COPPER;

CHROMOSOME; COPPER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PATHOGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLASMID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; COPPER; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84873877624     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02644-12     Document Type: Article

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