Rhizobium nodulation protein NodA is a host-specific determinant of the transfer of fatty acids in Nod factor biosynthesis

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 44-51

  Ritsema, Tita ^a   Wijfjes, André H M ^a   Lugtenberg, Ben J J ^a   Spaink, Herman P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acyl transfer; Nod factors; nodA; Nodulation; Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; GENE NUMBER; LEGUME; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0029966708     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02174343     Document Type: Article

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