Deficiency of a Sinorhizobium meliloti bacA mutant in alfalfa symbiosis correlates with alteration of the cell envelope

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5625-5632

  Ferguson, Gail P ^a   Roop II, R Martin ^a   Walker, Graham C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BACA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL SURVIVAL; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CELL MEMBRANE; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; ZINC;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NEGIBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0036786187     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.20.5625-5632.2002     Document Type: Article

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