The NodA proteins of Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium tropici specify the N-acylation of Nod factors by different fatty acids

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 303-314

  Debellé, Frédéric ^a   Plazanet, Claire ^a   Roche, Philippe ^a,b   Pujol, Céline ^a   Savagnac, Arlette ^b   Rosenberg, Charles ^a   Promé, Jean Claude ^b   Dénarié, Jean ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLATION; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0029850088     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.00069.x     Document Type: Article

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