Analysis of expressed genes of the bacterium 'candidatus phytoplasma mali' highlights key features of virulence and metabolism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Siewert, Christin ^a   Luge, Toni ^b   Duduk, Bojan ^c   Seemüller, Erich ^d   Büttner, Carmen ^a   Sauer, Sascha ^b   Kube, Michael ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PESTICIDES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (Serbia)

^d Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETATE KINASE; CHAPERONIN 60; EARLY PREGNANCY FACTOR; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA MALI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALUS DOMESTICA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA OCCIDENTALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA; RNA SEQUENCE; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; TYPE IVB SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOPLASMA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84899642975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094391     Document Type: Article

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