CelR, an ortholog of the diguanylate cyclase PleD of caulobacter, regulates cellulose synthesis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 7188-7202

  Michael Barnhart, D ^b   Su, Shengchang ^a,b   Baccaro, Brenna E ^c   Banta, Lois M ^c   Farrand, Stephen K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION STRUCTURES; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CATALYTIC SUBUNITS; CELLULOSE PRODUCTION; CELLULOSE SYNTHASE; CELLULOSE SYNTHESIS; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PHYLOGENETIC COMPARISONS;

ADHESION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFILMS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CELLULOSE;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CELLULOSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULOSE; CELR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; DIGUANYLATE CYCLASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LYASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; CAULOBACTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAULOBACTER; CELLULOSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84888267469     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02148-13     Document Type: Article

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