nodD2 of Rhizobium sp. NGR234 is involved in the repression of the nodABC operon

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1039-1050

  Fellay, R ^a   Hanin, M ^a   Montorzi, G ^a   Frey, J ^b   Freiberg, C ^c   Golinowski, W ^d   Staehelin, C ^e   Broughton, W J ^a   Jabbouri, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Inst F Vet Bakteriologie   (Switzerland)

^c FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COSMIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCORRHIZAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; TEPHROSIA VOGELII; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 0031780326     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00761.x     Document Type: Article

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