The Sinorhizobium meliloti MsbA2 protein is essential for the legume symbiosis

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1258-1270

  Beck, Sebastian ^a   Marlow, Victoria L ^a,b   Woodall, Katy ^a   Doerrler, William T ^c   James, Euan K ^d   Ferguson, Gail P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MSBA2;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEGUME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEFENSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BRUCELLA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 39849087034     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/014894-0     Document Type: Article

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