Profound impact of Hfq on nutrient acquisition, metabolism and motility in the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Möller, Philip ^a   Overlöper, Aaron ^a   Förstner, Konrad U ^b   Wen, Tuan Nan ^c   Sharma, Cynthia M ^b   Lai, Erh Min ^c   Narberhaus, Franz ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HFQ PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HOST FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOBARIC TAGS FOR RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE QUANTITATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEOMICS; REGULON; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PROTEOMICS; REGULON; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84908125841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110427     Document Type: Article

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