Calcium regulates the production of nodulation outer proteins (Nops) and precludes pili formation by Sinorhizobium fredii USDA257, a soybean symbiont

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-64

  Krishnan, Hari B ^a   Kim, Won Seok ^a   Sun Hyung, Jeong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Nodulation outer proteins; Pilus; Soybean; Symbiosis; Type III secretion system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SYMBIONT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

GLYCINE MAX; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

EID: 34247877873     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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