The plant-associated bacterium Stenotrophomonas rhizophila expresses a new enzyme for the synthesis of the compatible solute glucosylglycerol

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5898-5906

  Hagemann, Martin ^a   Ribbeck Busch, Kathrin ^a   Klähn, Stephan ^a   Hasse, Dirk ^a   Steinbruch, Robert ^a   Berg, Gabriele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GGPPS PROTEIN; GLUCOSYLGLYCEROL; GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; GGPPS GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; SALT STRESS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS RHIZOPHILA; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSIDES; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS SP.; RHIZOBIUM; STENOTROPHOMONAS RHIZOPHILA; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 50249181678     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00643-08     Document Type: Article

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