The absence of protein Y4yS affects negatively the abundance of T3SS Mesorhizobium loti secretin, RhcC2, in bacterial membranes

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 1-12

  Mercante, Virginia ^a   Duarte, Cecilia M ^a   Sánchez, Cintia M ^a   Zalguizuri, Andrés ^a   Caetano Anollés, Gustavo ^b   Lepek, Viviana C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Pilotin; Rhizobia; Rhizobium; Secretin; Secretion system; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LOTUS TENUIS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84922334562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00012     Document Type: Article

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