Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 rkp-3 genes are required for K-antigen polysaccharide biosynthesis, affect lipopolysaccharide structure and are essential for infection of legumes forming determinate nodules

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 825-838

  Margaret, Isabel ^a   Crespo Rivas, Juan C ^a   Acosta Jurado, Sebastián ^a   Buendía Clavería, Ana M ^a   Cubo, María T ^a   Gil Serrano, Antonio ^a   Moreno, Javier ^b   Murdoch, Piedad S ^a   Rodríguez Carvajal, Miguel A ^a   Rodríguez Navarro, Dulce N ^c   Ruiz Sainz, José E ^a   Sanjuán, Juan ^d   Soto, María J ^d   Vinardell, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Biología Celular y Bioquímica Vegetal   (Spain)

^c IFAPA CENTRO EL TORUÑO   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NODULATION; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEAN;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEANS;

CAJANUS CAJAN; GLYCINE MAX; GLYCYRRHIZA URALENSIS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 84860701869     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-10-11-0262     Document Type: Article

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