Dicarboxylate transport by rhizobia

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 489-501

  Yurgel, Svetlana N ^a   Kahn, Michael L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DctA; Dicarboxylate transport; Glutamate transporter; Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; DICARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; ION CHANNEL; PERMEASE;

ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CARBON SOURCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LEGUME; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DICARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 4444375159     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsre.2004.04.002     Document Type: Review

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