Expression of extra-cellular levansucrase in Pseudomonas syringae is controlled by the in planta fitness-promoting metabolic repressor HexR Microbe-host interactions and microbial pathogenicity

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mehmood, Amna ^a   Abdallah, Khaled ^a   Khandekar, Shaunak ^a   Zhurina, Daria ^a   Srivastava, Abhishek ^a   Al Karablieh, Nehaya ^a,b   Alfaro Espinoza, Gabriela ^a   Pletzer, Daniel ^a   Ullrich, Matthias S ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Bacterial blight; Hexose metabolism; HexR; Levansucrase; Plant pathogen; Pseudomonas syringae; Soybean

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; GLUCOSE; LEVANSUCRASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SUCROSE; CARBON; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LEVAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HEXR GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; LSC GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN; TOBACCO; WILD TYPE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCINE MAX; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA;

CARBON; ENERGY METABOLISM; FRUCTANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; SUCROSE; TOBACCO;

EID: 84992456851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0349-0     Document Type: Article

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