Article
Diversity and evolution of hydrogenase systems in rhizobia.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2002
Baginsky Cecilia, Brito Belén, Imperial Juan, Palacios José-Manuel, Ruiz-Argüeso Tomás
Abstract excerpt
Uptake hydrogenases allow rhizobia to recycle the hydrogen generated in the nitrogen fixation process within the legume nodule. Hydrogenase (hup) systems in Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae show highly conserved sequence and gene organization, but important differences exist in regulation and in the presence of specific genes. We have undertaken the characterization of hup gene...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA, Bacterial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Hydrogenase
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Oxidoreductases
- Phylogeny
- Rhizobiaceae
- Rhizobium
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
