Multiple genetic controls on Rhizobium meliloti syrA, a regulator of exopolysaccharide abundance

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-32

  Barnett, Melanie J ^a   Swanson, Jean A ^a   Long, Sharon R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031929689     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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