Identification of a novel gene for biosynthesis of a bacteroid-specific electron carrier menaquinone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Xie, Fuli ^a   Cheng, Guojun ^a   Xu, Hui ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Lei, Lei ^a   Li, Youguo ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEMETHYLMENAQUINONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MENAQUINONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FARNOQUINONE; UBIQUINONE;

ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS SINICUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DMTH GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MESORHIZOBIUM HUAKUII; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MESORHIZOBIUM; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NODULATION; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASTRAGALUS PLANT; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTRONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MESORHIZOBIUM; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; UBIQUINONE; VITAMIN K 2;

EID: 83655183031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028995     Document Type: Article

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