Identification of a third sulfate activation system in Sinorhizobium sp. strain BR816: The CysDN sulfate activation complex

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2006-2014

  Snoeck, Carla ^a   Verreth, Christel ^a   Hernández Lucas, Ismael ^b   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^b   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a  

^a Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics   (Belgium)

^b Ctro Invest Sobre Fijacion N   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRAIN;

SULFATE ACTIVATION SYSTEMS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

APIGENIN; SULFATE; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE;

MICROBIOLOGY; RHIZOBACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BEAN; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SINORHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHASEOLUS; PHOSPHOADENOSINE PHOSPHOSULFATE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATES; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 0037391289     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2006-2014.2003     Document Type: Article

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