The rkp-1 cluster is required for secretion of Kdo homopolymeric capsular polysaccharide in Sinorhizobium meliloti strain Rm1021

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 6988-7000

  Müller, Maike G ^a   Forsberg, Lennart S ^b   Keating, David H ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY D MANNO OCT 2 ULOPYRANOSONIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUCCINOGLYCAN; SUGAR ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RKP 1 GENE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SUGAR ACIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FABACEAE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 70350469963     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00466-09     Document Type: Article

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