Cloning and identification of lpsH, a novel gene playing a fundamental role in symbiotic nitrogen fixation of Mesorhizobium huakuii

Current Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 371-375

  Cheng, Guojun ^a,b   Li, Youguo ^a   Xie, Bo ^a   Yang, Chengyun ^a   Zhou, Junchu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; IPSH PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITROGEN; O ANTIGEN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; ASTRAGALUS SINICUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; MESORHIZOBIUM HUAKUII; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSPOSON;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ASTRAGALUS SINICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM HUAKUII;

EID: 34248352956     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0471-1     Document Type: Article

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