Rhizobitoxine production in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 by Bradyrhizobium elkanii rtxACDEFG genes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-35

  Sugawara, Masayuki ^a   Haramaki, Ryota ^a   Nonaka, Satoko ^b   Ezura, Hiroshi ^b   Okazaki, Shin ^a   Eda, Shima ^a   Mitsui, Hisayuki ^a   Minamisawa, Kiwamu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

1 aminocyclopropane 1 carboxylate synthase; Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Bradyrhizobium elkanii; Ethylene; Rhizobitoxine

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RHIZOBITOXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; HOMOSERINE; LYASES; MUTATION; OPERON; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROPANOLAMINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; XANTHOMONAS ORYZAE;

EID: 33847636384     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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