N-Deacetylation of Sinorhizobium meliloti Nod factors increases their stability in the Medicago sativa rhizosphere and decreases their biological activity

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 72-79

  Staehelin, Christian ^a,c   Schultze, Michael ^a,d   Tokuyasu, Ken ^b   Poinsot, Véréna ^a   Promé, Jean Claude ^a   Kondorosi, Éva ^a   Kondorosi, Ádám ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lipo chitooligosaccharides

Indexed keywords

ACETYLATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHITIN; CHITIN DEACETYLASE; DEACETYLATION; GLYCOSYL HYDROLASE; IN VITRO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NOD FACTOR; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RHIZOSPHERE;

ANIMALIA; COLLETOTRICHUM LINDEMUTHIANUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0033959609     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.1.72     Document Type: Article

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