Characterization of a gene family of outer membrane proteins (ropB) in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae VF39SM and the role of the sensor kinase ChvG in their regulation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 975-983

  Foreman, Dallas L ^a   Vanderlinde, Elizabeth M ^a   Bay, Denise C ^a,b   Yost, Christopher K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CHVG KINASE; DETERGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; ROPB GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEAS; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; PROTEIN KINASES; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 75749096696     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01140-09     Document Type: Article

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