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Two of the three groEL homologues in Rhizobium leguminosarum are dispensable for normal growth.
Archives of microbiology - 1 May 2005
Rodríguez-Quiñones F, Maguire M, Wallington E J, Gould Phillip S, Yerko V, Downie J A, Lund P A
Abstract excerpt
Although many bacteria contain only a single groE operon encoding the essential chaperones GroES and GroEL, examples of bacteria containing more than one groE operon are common. The root-nodulating bacterium Rhizobium leguminosarum contains at least three operons encoding homologues to Escherichia coli GroEL, referred to as Cpn60.1, Cpn60.2 and Cpn60.3, respectively. We report here a detailed analysis of the...
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