The regulator gene phoB mediates phosphate stress-controlled synthesis of the membrane lipid diacylglyceryl-N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine in Rhizobium (Sinorhizobium) meliloti

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-73

  Geiger, Otto ^a   Röhrs, Viola ^a   Weissenmayer, Barbara ^a   Finan, Turlough M ^b   Thomas Oates, Jane E ^c,d  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE LIPID; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0032910352     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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