Requirement for Mesorhizobium loti ornithine transcarbamoylase for successful symbiosis with Lotus japonicus as revealed by an unexpected long-range genome deletion

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 301-313

  Mishima, Elina ^a,b   Hosokawa, Atsuko ^a   Imaizumi Anraku, Haruko ^c   Saito, Katsuharu ^d,e   Kawaguchi, Masayoshi ^d   Saeki, Kazuhiko ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginine auxotroph; Exopolysaccharide; Lotus japonicus; Mesorhizobium loti; Nitrogen fixation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LOTUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LOTUS; MUTATION; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; RHIZOBIACEAE; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 40849095976     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcn004     Document Type: Article

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