Cellular responses during morphological transformation in Azospirillum brasilense and its flcA knockout mutant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Hou, Xingsheng ^a,b   McMillan, Mary ^a   Coumans, Joëlle V F ^a   Poljak, Anne ^c   Raftery, Mark J ^c   Pereg, Lily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A ACYLTRANSFERASE; CITRATE SYNTHASE; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONGO RED; FLCA PROTEIN, AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DELETION MUTANT; FLOCCULATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRESS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PROTEOMICS;

AZOSPIRILLUM; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONGO RED; FLOCCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEOMICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84918561780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114435     Document Type: Article

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