Tricarboxylic acid cycle and anaplerotic enzymes in rhizobia

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-123

  Dunn, Michael F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anaplerotic reaction; Carbon metabolism; Rhizobium legume interaction; Symbiosis; Tricarboxylic acid cycle

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE; GENE PRODUCT; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

AZORHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031666411     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(98)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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