Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is a bacterial phytopathogen that causes Stewart's wilt disease in corn. It uses quorum sensing to regulate expression of some genes involved in virulence in a cell density-dependent manner as the bacterial population grows from small numbers at the initial infection site in the leaf apoplast to high cell numbers in the xylem where it forms a biofilm. There ar...

Medicinal plants and their endophytes are a source of valuable bioactive compounds secondary metabolites which contribute to more than 80% natural medicines available in the market. A plant that has long been used as traditional medicinal herb for healing is Kayu Jawa (Lannea coromandelica (Houtt) Merr). This study aimed characterization identification endophytic bacterial isolates isolated fro...

A 2019 bp DNA fragment containing the replicon of pSW800 from Pantoea stewartii SW2 was cloned and characterized. This replicon contains two genes--repA and repB, which encode a 36.5 kDa replication initiation protein (RepA) and a peptide of 18 aa, respectively. These two genes overlap by 8 bases with repB situated upstream. The replicon also transcribes an antisense RNA (RNAI) that inhibits th...

INTRODUCTION Pantoea calida, a recently described environmental Enterobacteriaceae organism, has not yet been associated with human infection. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of postoperative meningitis caused by P. calida. After pituitary adenoma resection, a 52-year-old Caucasian woman developed febrile meningitis confirmed by cerebrospinal fluid analysis. P. calida was grown in pure cul...