Pyruvate is synthesized by two pathways in pea bacteroids with different efficiencies for nitrogen fixation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4944-4953

  Mulley, Geraldine ^a   Lopez Gomez, Miguel ^a   Zhang, Ye ^b   Terpolilli, Jason ^a   Prell, Jurgen ^a   Finan, Turlough ^b   Poole, Philip ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (ATP); PYRUVATE KINASE; ACETYLENE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVIC ACID;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; ALFALFA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

ACETYLENE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEAS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; PYRUVIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 77957374316     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00294-10     Document Type: Article

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