Global regulatory networks control the hrp regulon of the gall-forming bacterium Pantoea agglomerans pv. gypsophilae

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1031-1043

  Panijel, Mary ^a   Chalupowicz, Laura ^b   Sessa, Guido ^a   Manulis Sasson, Shulamit ^b   Barash, Isaac ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GAMMA BUTYROLACTONE; N BUTYRYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; N-BUTYRYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PANTOEA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT TUMOR; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRULENCE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PANTOEA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TUMORS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; QUORUM SENSING; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84883174352     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-04-13-0097-R     Document Type: Article

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