Regulation of exopolysaccharide production in Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae WSM710 involves exoR

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1951-1958

  Reeve, Wayne G ^a   Dilworth, Michael J ^a   Tiwari, Ravi P ^a   Glenn, Andrew R ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid tolerance; Exopolysaccharide; Regulator; Rhizobium; Soil acidity

Indexed keywords

ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HYDROPHILICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REGULATOR GENE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRIXIS;

EID: 0030814116     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-6-1951     Document Type: Article

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