The PhyR-σEcfG signalling cascade is involved in stress response and symbiotic efficiency in Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-305

  Gourion, Benjamin ^a,b   Sulser, Sandra ^a   Frunzke, Julia ^a   Francez Charlot, Anne ^a   Stiefel, Philipp ^a   Pessi, Gabriella ^a   Vorholt, Julia A ^a   Fischer, Hans Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEPR PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PHYR PROTEIN; RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DELETION MUTANT; DESICCATION; ECFG GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAT SHOCK; LEGUME; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUNG BEAN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYR GENE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEAN; STARVATION; STRESS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOYBEANS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; VIGNA RADIATA;

EID: 67650418180     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06769.x     Document Type: Article

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