Regulatory Role of Rhizobium etli CNPAF512 fnrN during Symbiosis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1287-1296

  Moris, Martine ^a   Dombrecht, Bruno ^a   Xi, Chuanwu ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a   Michiels, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; PROTEINS;

RHIZOBIUM;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

AEROBIC RESPIRATION CONTROL PROTEIN A; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FIXG; PROTEIN FIXN; PROTEIN FNRN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ARCA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 1642363321     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1287-1296.2004     Document Type: Article

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