Symbiotic use of pathogenic strategies: Rhizobial protein secretion systems

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 312-320

  Deakin, William J ^a   Broughton, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; EFFECTOR PROTEIN; FLAVONOID; NODULATION OUTER PROTEIN L; NODULATION OUTER PROTEIN P; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NODD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT CORTEX CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FABACEAE; NITROGEN FIXATION; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 63049103598     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2091     Document Type: Article

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