Many Xanthomonas bacteria use transcription activator-like effector (TALE) proteins to activate plant disease susceptibility (S) genes, and this activation contributes to disease. We recently reported that rice basal transcription factor IIA gamma subunit, OsTFIIAγ5, is hijacked by TALE-carrying Xanthomonas oryzae infecting the plants. However, whether TFIIAγs are also involved in TALE-carrying...

UNLABELLED G-PRIMER, a web-based primer design program, has been developed to compute a minimal primer set specifically annealed to all the open reading frames in a given microbial genome. This program has been successfully used in the microarray experiment for analyzing the expression of genes in the Xanthomonas campestris genome. AVAILABILITY It is available at http://mammoth.bii.a-star.edu...

Xanthomonas bacterium exhibited post-exponential programmed cell death (PCD) under certain nutritional conditions especially in a protein rich medium. PCD was not displayed by Xanthomonas cells while growing in minimal medium like starch minimal medium or M9 medium. While undergoing PCD, the organism was found to transform to spherical membranous apoptotic body like structures. The transformati...

Title: The cNMP Domain of Xanthomonas campestris Global Regulator 1 Clp Defines a New Class of C-di-GMP Effectors 2 3 Authors: Fei Tao, Ya-Wen He, Dong-Hui Wu, Sanjay Swarup, Lian-Hui Zhang * 4 Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Singapore 138673; 5 Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of 6 Singapore, Science Drive 4, Singapore 11754...

Xylella fastidiosa, a pathogen of citrus, is the first plant pathogenic bacterium for which the complete genome sequence has been published. Inspection of the sequence reveals high relatedness to many genes of other pathogens, notably Xanthomonas campestris. Based on this, we suggest that Xylella possesses certain easily testable properties that contribute to pathogenicity. We also present some...