The Sinorhizobium meliloti stringent response affects multiple aspects of symbiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1115-1127

  Wells, Derek H ^a   Long, Sharon R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; SUCCINOGLYCAN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE CONTROL; LEGUME; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPECIES INVASION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

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

EID: 0036223872     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02826.x     Document Type: Article

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