Role of nodI and nodJ in lipo-chitooligosaccharide secretion in Azorhizobium caulinodans and Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 993-1000

  Fernández López, Manuel ^a   D'Haeze, Wim ^a   Mergaert, Peter ^a   Verplancke, Christa ^a   Promé, Jean Claude ^b   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Holsters, Marcelle ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOSACCHARIDE; ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHITIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; KPSM PROTEIN, E COLI; KPST PROTEIN, E COLI; LIPID LINKED OLIGOSACCHARIDES; LIPID-LINKED OLIGOSACCHARIDES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NODI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; NODJ PROTEIN, AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL MUTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMBIOSIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RHIZOBIACEAE;

AZORHIZOBIUM; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHITIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 0029657771     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02540.x     Document Type: Article

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