Indole-3-acetic acid biosynthesis is deficient in Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus strains with mutations in cytochrome c biogenesis genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 5384-5391

  Lee, Sunhee ^a,c   Flores Encarnacion M ^b   Contreras Zentella, M ^b   Garcia Flores, L ^b   Escamilla, J E ^b   Kennedy, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; GENE PRODUCT; GROWTH PROMOTOR; HEME; INDOLEACETIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEROXIDASE; TN5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CCM GENE; CELL RESPIRATION; CLONE; COSMID; CROP; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPHYTE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS MAD10; GLUCONOBACTER; LIQUID CULTURE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; SUGARCANE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCONACETOBACTER; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; PEROXIDASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; GLUCONOBACTER; NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 3843121975     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.16.5384-5391.2004     Document Type: Article

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