Rhizobial secreted proteins as determinants of host specificity in the rhizobium-legume symbiosis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Fauvart, Maarten ^a   Michiels, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological nitrogen fixation; Protein secretion; Type I secretion system; Type III secretion system; Type IV secretion system; Type VI secretion system

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FLAVONOID; NITROGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; SUCCINOGLYCAN;

GENE; HOST RANGE; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOSPHERE; SHORT SURVEY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FABACEAE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 47349095948     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01254.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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