Molecular biology of Erwinia: from soft-rot to antileukaemics
Autor: | J Robert-Baudouy |
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Rok vydání: | 1991 |
Předmět: |
Gram-negative bacteria
biology Proteolytic enzymes food and beverages Virulence Bioengineering biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Erwinia biology.organism_classification medicine.disease_cause Enterobacteriaceae Microbiology carbohydrates (lipids) Extracellular medicine bacteria Escherichia coli Bacteria Biotechnology |
Zdroj: | Trends in Biotechnology. 9:325-329 |
ISSN: | 0167-7799 |
DOI: | 10.1016/0167-7799(91)90103-o |
Popis: | Soft-rot Erwinia has served to model the regulatory mechanisms in plant-pathogen interactions, and studies have revealed the extracellular pectinolytic, cellulolytic and proteolytic enzymes to be major virulence factors in Erwinia pathogenesis. Apart from its agricultural significance, Erwinia is of increasing interest as an industrial microbe: the Erwinia secretory apparatus, when cloned in Escherichia coli , enables this organism to secrete heterologous Erwinia pectinases, and molecular studies in Erwinia have facilitated the industrial production of pectin methylesterase (important in fruit-juice processing), vitamin C and the antileukaemic asparaginase. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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