Phosphatidylethanolamine Is Not Essential for Growth of Sinorhizobium meliloti on Complex Culture Media

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1667-1677

  Sohlenkamp, Christian ^a   De Rudder, Karel E E ^b   Geiger, Otto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHOLINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE LIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SUPPLEMENTATION; WILD TYPE;

CDPDIACYLGLYCEROL-SERINE O-PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINE; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

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

EID: 1542286933     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.6.1667-1677.2004     Document Type: Article

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