A metabolic regulator modulates virulence and quorum sensing signal production in Pectobacterium atrosepticum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 356-366

  Cubitt, Marion F ^a,b   Hedley, Peter E ^b   Williamson, Neil R ^a   Morris, Jenny A ^b   Campbell, Emma ^b   Toth, Ian K ^b   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; HOMOSERINE LACTONE; METHIONINE; METHIONINE REPRESSOR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PECTATE LYASE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; QUORUM SENSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHIONINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PECTOBACTERIUM; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHENOTYPE; PLANT TUBERS; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; QUORUM SENSING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84874079487     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-12-0210-R     Document Type: Article

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