High affinity iron acquisition in Rhizobium leguminosarum requires the cycHJKL operon and the feuPQ gene products, which belong to the family of two-component transcriptional regulators

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 127-134

  Yeoman, Kay H ^a,c   Delgado, Maria Jesus ^b,d   Wexler, Margaret ^a   Downie, J Allan ^b   Johnston, Andrew W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c; Iron acquisition; Nitrogen fixation; Rhizobium; Siderophore

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; IRON; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOPORPHYRIN; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; GENE MUTATION; IRON TRANSPORT; MODEL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS;

RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0031034273     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-1-127     Document Type: Article

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