Molecular biology of Erwinia: from soft-rot to antileukaemics

Autor: J Robert-Baudouy
Rok vydání: 1991
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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.
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