Glycerol utilization by Rhizobium leguminosarum requires an ABC transporter and affects competition for nodulation

Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1369-1378

  Ding, Hao ^a   Yip, Cynthia B ^a   Geddes, Barney A ^b   Oresnik, Ivan J ^b   Hynes, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLPD GENE; GLPK GENE; GLPR GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; PEAS; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISUM SATIVUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84860521172     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.057281-0     Document Type: Article

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