The intracellular scots pine shoot symbiont Methylobacterium extorquens DSM13060 aggregates around the host nucleus and encodes eukaryote-like proteins

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Koskimäki, Janne J ^a   Pirttilä, Anna Maria ^a   Ihantola, Emmi Leena ^a,b   Halonen, Outi ^a   Carolin Frank, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; GIBBERELLIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCOTS PINE; SHOOT; SYMBIONT; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPHYTE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPHYTES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT SHOOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84928813925     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00039-15     Document Type: Article

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