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The disruption of a gene encoding a putative arylesterase impairs pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity and nitrogen fixation in Sinorhizobium meliloti.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jun 2001
Soto M J, Sanjuan J, Olivares J
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Nitrogen-fixing Sinorhizobium meliloti cells depend upon dicarboxylic acids as carbon and energy sources. The metabolism of these intermediate compounds of the trichloroacetic acid cycle is dependent upon the availability of acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA). In bacteroids, the combined activities of malic enzymes and pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) have been proposed to be responsible for the anaplerotic synthesis of...
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