Functional redundancy of genes for sulphate activation enzymes in Rhizobium sp. BR816

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3933-3942

  Laeremans, T ^a,b   Coolsaet, N ^b   Verreth, C ^b   Snoeck, C ^b   Hellings, N ^b   Vanderleyden, J ^b   Martinez Romero E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b F A Janssens Lab of Genetics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Nod factor; nodPQ; Rhizobium sp. BR816; Sulphate activation; TLC

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NOD FACTOR; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031464532     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-12-3933     Document Type: Article

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