Novel rkp gene clusters of Sinorhizobium meliloti involved in capsular polysaccharide production and invasion of the symbiotic nodule: The rkpK gene encodes a UDP-glucose dehydrogenase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 5426-5431

  Kereszt, Attila ^a   Kiss, Erno ^a   Reuhs, Bradley L ^b   Carlson, Russell W ^b   Kondorosi, Ádám ^a,c   Putnoky, Péter ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MUTAGENESIS; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031658854     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.20.5426-5431.1998     Document Type: Article

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