Domain Shuffling in a Sensor Protein Contributed to the Evolution of Insect Pathogenicity in Plant-Beneficial Pseudomonas protegens

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kupferschmied, Peter ^a   Péchy Tarr, Maria ^a   Imperiali, Nicola ^a   Maurhofer, Monika ^b   Keel, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DCTB PROTEIN; FITF PROTEIN; FITH PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PROTEGENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOTHS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84895772362     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003964     Document Type: Article

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