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Copper metallochaperones are required for the assembly of bacteroid cytochrome c oxidase which is functioning for nitrogen fixation in soybean nodules.
Plant & cell physiology - 1 Jul 2010
Arunothayanan Hatthaya, Nomura Mika, Hamaguchi Rie, Itakura Manabu, Minamisawa Kiwamu, Tajima Shigeyuki
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Bradyrhizobium japonicum, a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium for Glycine max, has complex respiratory electron transport chains. Bll4880 contained a copper-binding motif for metallochaperone, H(M)X(10)MX(21)HXM. A mutant strain, Bj4880, induced nodules with lower acetylene reduction activity....
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