Fucosylation and arabinosylation of nod factors in Azorhizobium caulinodans: Involvement of nolK, nodZ as well as noeC and/or downstream genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 409-419

  Mergaert, Peter ^a   D'Haeze, Wim ^a   Fernández López, Manuel ^a   Geelen, Danny ^a,c   Goethals, Koen ^a   Promé, Jean Claude ^b   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Holsters, Marcelle ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE FUCOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; FUCOSYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM;

AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0029748282     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.6451366.x     Document Type: Article

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