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A Sinorhizobium meliloti lipopolysaccharide mutant altered in cell surface sulfation.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2002
Keating David H, Willits Michael G, Long Sharon R
Abstract excerpt
The Rhizobium-legume symbiosis involves the formation of a novel plant organ, the nodule, in which intracellular bacteria reduce molecular dinitrogen in exchange for plant photosynthates. Nodule development requires a bacterial signal referred to as Nod factor, which in Sinorhizobium meliloti is a beta-(1,4)-linked tetramer of N-acetylglucosamine containing N-acyl and O-acetyl modifications at the nonreducing end...
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