The Rhizobium etli gene iscN is highly expressed in bacteroids and required for nitrogen fixation

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 267, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 820-828

  Dombrecht, B ^a   Tesfay, M ^b   Verreth, C ^a   Heusdens, C ^a   Napoles M ^c   Vanderleyden, J ^a   Michiels, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Institute of Agricultural Sciences   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Biological nitrogen fixation; HesB like; iscN nifU nifS; Rhizobium etli; RpoN

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ISCN; PROTEIN NIFS; PROTEIN NIFU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACETYLENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHASEOLUS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 0036050779     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0715-0     Document Type: Article

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