Sinorhizobium meliloti CpdR1 is critical for co-ordinating cell cycle progression and the symbiotic chronic infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 586-600

  Kobayashi, Hajime ^a,b   De Nisco, Nicole J ^a   Chien, Peter ^a   Simmons, Lyle A ^a,c   Walker, Graham C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CPDR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIVISION; CELL INVASION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPDR1 GENE; CPDR2 GENE; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; COCCOIDEA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 70350154538     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06794.x     Document Type: Article

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