Cell-to-cell signaling in the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium Rhizobium leguminosarum: Autoinduction of a stationary phase and rhizosphere-expressed genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 372-376

  Gray, Kendall M ^a,c   Pearson, James P ^a,d   Downie, J Allan ^b   Boboye, Bolatito E A ^b,e   Greenberg, E Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0030034468     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.2.372-376.1996     Document Type: Article

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