The Sinorhizobium meliloti ABC transporter Cho is highly specific for choline and expressed in bacteroids from Medicago sativa nodules

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 5988-5996

  Dupont, Laurence ^a   Garcia, Isabelle ^a   Poggi, Marie Christine ^a   Alloing, Geneviève ^a   Mandon, Karine ^a   Le Rudulier, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BETAINE; BINDING PROTEIN; CHOLINE; CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; ECTOINE; PERMEASE; PROTEIN CHO; PROTEIN CHOV; PROTEIN CHOW; PROTEIN CHOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BINDING AFFINITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; LIGAND BINDING; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTEROIDES; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIACEAE; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 4444256330     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.5988-5996.2004     Document Type: Article

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