The pha gene cluster of Rhizobium meliloti involved in pH adaptation and symbiosis encodes a novel type of K+ efflux system

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1091-1101

  Putnoky, Péter ^a   Kereszt, Attila ^a   Nakamura, Tatsunosuke ^b   Endre, Gabriella ^a   Grosskopf, Erich ^a   Kiss, Péter ^a   Kondorosi, Ádám ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE);

ADAPTATION; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON SODIUM EXCHANGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POTASSIUM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SODIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO SATIVA; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031744926     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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