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Functional differences of two distinct catalases in Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 under free-living and symbiotic conditions.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2009
Hanyu Masaki, Fujimoto Hanae, Tejima Kouhei, Saeki Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Protection against reactive oxygen species (ROS) is important for legume-nodulating rhizobia during the establishment and maintenance of symbiosis, as well as under free-living conditions, because legume hosts might assail incoming microbes with ROS and because nitrogenase is extremely sensitive to ROS. We generated mutants of two potential catalase genes in Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 to investigate their...
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