Alteration of the exopolysaccharide production and the transcriptional profile of free-living Frankia strain CcI3 under nitrogen-fixing conditions

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 97, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 10499-10509

  Lee, Hae In ^a   Donati, Andrew J ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^b   Tisa, Louis S ^c   Chang, Woo Suk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exopolysaccharide (EPS); Frankia; Microarray; Nitrogen limitation; QRT PCR; Symbiotic nitrogenfixation

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; FRANKIA; MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGIES; NITROGEN LIMITATION; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONS; Q-RT-PCR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION PCR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

MICROARRAYS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; TRANSCRIPTION;

METABOLITES;

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE; GALACTURONIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; NITROGEN; RHAMNOSE; RIBOSE; RNA; XYLOSE;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE; REAL TIME; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; FRANKIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; FRANKIA; GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MANNOSE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84892170203     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5277-z     Document Type: Article

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