The Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 noeJ and noeL genes are involved in extracellular polysaccharide biosynthesis

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4058-4068

  Lerner, Anat ^a   Castro Sowinski, Susana ^a,b   Valverde, Angel ^a,c   Lerner, Hadas ^a   Dror, Rachel ^a   Okon, Yaacov ^a   Burdman, Saul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,6 DEHYDRATASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GENE PRODUCT; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE MANNOSE; HYDROLYASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN NOEJ; PROTEIN NOEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; LIPOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDRO-LYASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 71449125819     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.031807-0     Document Type: Article

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