A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14528-14533

  Stallforth, Pierre ^a   Brock, Debra A ^b   Cantley, Alexandra M ^a   Tian, Xiangjun ^b   Queller, David C ^b   Strassmann, Joan E ^b   Clardy, Jon ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential metabolomics; GacA GacS two component system; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN GACA; PYRROLNITRIN; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BENZOPYRAN DERIVATIVE; GACA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; STOP CODON;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLEIOTROPY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REGULATOR GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOP CODON; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOPYRANS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CODON, NONSENSE; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, REGULATOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PYRROLNITRIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84883421884     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308199110     Document Type: Article

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