Lon protease of azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 is required for suppression of reb gene expression

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6251-6261

  Nakajima, Azusa ^a   Aono, Toshihiro ^a   Tsukada, Shuhei ^a   Siarot, Lowela ^a   Ogawa, Tetsuhiro ^b   Oyaizu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIAL CELLS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; DOUBLE MUTANTS; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; HIGH DENSITY; HOST CELLS; HOUSEKEEPING FUNCTIONS; LON PROTEASE; LOW DENSITY; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SESBANIA ROSTRATA; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

BACTERIA; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GENES; NITROGEN FIXATION;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA;

BACTERIUM; BIOACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SESBANIA; SYMBIOSIS;

AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT STEMS; PROTEASE LA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SESBANIA; SYMBIOSIS;

AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SESBANIA ROSTRATA;

EID: 84866169183     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01039-12     Document Type: Article

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