Elevated levels of synthesis of over 20 proteins results after mutation of the Rhizobium leguminosarum exopolysaccharide synthesis gene pssA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 4521-4532

  Guerreiro, Nelson ^a   Ksenzenko, Vladimir N ^b,c   Djordjevic, Michael A ^a   Ivashina, Tanya V ^b   Rolfe, Barry G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. TRIFOLII; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 0033894596     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.16.4521-4532.2000     Document Type: Article

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