Mesorhizobium loti produces nodPQ-dependent sulfated cell surface polysaccharides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8560-8572

  Townsend II, Guy E ^a   Forsberg, Lennart S ^b   Keating, David H ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; DNA; NEOMYCIN; NOD FACTOR; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SULFOTRANSFERASE;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; LEGUME; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NODPQ GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LOTUS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHOSPHOADENOSINE PHOSPHOSULFATE; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATES; SYMBIOSIS;

FABACEAE; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIACEAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 33845417500     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01035-06     Document Type: Article

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