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A previously uncharacterized tetratricopeptide-repeat-containing protein is involved in cell envelope function in Rhizobium leguminosarum.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jan 2015
Neudorf Kara D, Vanderlinde Elizabeth M, Tambalo Dinah D, Yost Christopher K
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Rhizobium leguminosarum is a soil bacterium that is an intracellular symbiont of leguminous plants through the formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules. Due to the changing environments that rhizobia encounter, the cell is often faced with a variety of cell altering stressors that can compromise the cell envelope integrity. A previously uncharacterized operon (RL3499-RL3502) has been linked to proper cell...
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