Comprehensive overexpression analysis of cyclic-di-GMP signalling proteins in the phytopathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum reveals diverse effects on motility and virulence phenotypes

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue PART 7, 2014, Pages 1427-1439

  Tan, H ^a   West, J A ^a   Ramsay, J P ^a,c   Monson, R E ^a   Griffin, J L ^a   Toth, I K ^b   Salmond, G P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 PHOSPHOGUANYLYL(3'-5')GUANOSINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIS(3'-5')CYCLIC DIMERIC GUANOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; CELLULASE; CYCLIC GMP DERIVATIVE; EAL DOMAIN PROTEIN; GGDEF DOMAIN PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; HD GYP DOMAIN PROTEIN; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MOTILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; FLOCCULATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYCLIC GMP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PECTOBACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT TUBERS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84903642291     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.076828-0     Document Type: Article

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