Sinorhizobium meliloti strain 1021 bioS and bdhA gene transcriptions are both affected by biotin available in defined medium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-44

  Hofmann, Kai ^a   Heinz, Elke B ^a   Charles, Trevor C ^b   Hoppert, Michael ^a   Liebl, Wolfgang ^a   Streit, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Biotin; Polyhydroxybutyrate; Rhizosphere; Root colonization; Sinorhizobium meliloti

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID);

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTIN; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYBUTYRATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

EID: 0033987297     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00565-0     Document Type: Article

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