Rhizobium tropici response to acidity involves activation of glutathione synthesis

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1286-1296

  Muglia, Cecilia I ^a   Grasso, Daniel H ^a   Aguilar, O Mario ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE;

ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHASEOLUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI;

EID: 34247274214     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/003483-0     Document Type: Article

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