Rhizobial plasmid pLPU83a is able to switch between different transfer machineries depending on its genomic background

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 565-578

  Torres Tejerizo, Gonzalo ^a,b   Pistorio, Mariano ^b   Althabegoiti, María J ^a,b   Cervantes, Laura ^a   Wibberg, Daniel ^c   Schlüter, Andreas ^c   Pühler, Alfred ^c   Lagares, Antonio ^b   Romero, David ^a   Brom, Susana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conjugative transfer regulation; LuxR regulators; Plasmid; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; MOBILIZATION; PLASMID; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER REGULATION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LUXR REGULATORS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

CONJUGATIVE TRANSFER REGULATION; LUXR REGULATORS; PLASMID; RHIZOBIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901691517     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12325     Document Type: Article

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