Exopolysaccharide (EPS) synthesis in Bradyrhizobium japonicum: Sequence, operon structure and mutational analysis of an exo gene cluster

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-171

  Becker, B U ^a   Kosch, K ^a   Parniske, M ^a,b   Muller P ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exopolysaccharide; Gene fusion; Nodule development; Symbiosis; Transcriptional reporter

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DELETION MUTANT; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOYBEAN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031684050     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050801     Document Type: Article

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