Symbiosis-promoting and deleterious effects of NopT, a novel type 3 effector of Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5101-5110

  Dai, Wei Jun ^a   Zeng, Yong ^a   Xie, Zhi Ping ^a   Staehelin, Christian ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; NITROGEN; NOPT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NOPT GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT; POINT MUTATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CROTALARIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHASEOLUS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYMBIOSIS; TEPHROSIA; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CROTALARIA JUNCEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM SP.; TEPHROSIA VOGELII;

EID: 47249116636     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00306-08     Document Type: Article

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