A purL mutant of Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 is symbiotically defective and altered in its lipopolysaccharide

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1807-1818

  Buendía Clavería, Ana M ^a   Moussaid, Ahmed ^a   Ollero, F Javier ^a   Vinardell, José M ^a   Torres, Antonio ^a   Moreno, Javier ^a   Gil Serrano, Antonio M ^a   Rodríguez Carvajal, Miguel A ^a   Tejero Mateo, Pilar ^a   Peart, Jan L ^b   Brewin, Nicholas J ^b   Ruiz Sainz, José E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AMINO 4 IMIDAZOLECARBOXAMIDE RIBOSIDE; ADENINE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CONGO RED; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PURINE; THIAMINE;

ABSORPTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; INOCULATION; LEGUME; LIQUID CULTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CELL; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PURINE SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUPPLEMENTATION; SYMBIOSIS; TIME; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCINE MAX; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

EID: 0038487297     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26099-0     Document Type: Review

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