The pssB gene product of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii is homologous to a family of inositol monophosphatases

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 319-325

  Janczarek, Monika ^b   Król, Jaroslaw ^b   Skorupska, Anna ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Exopolysaccharide; Inositol monophosphatase; pssB gene; Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PHOSPHATASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INOSITOL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGENOUS GROUP TRANSFERASES; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. TRIFOLII; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0344938182     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00089-0     Document Type: Article

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