Article
Multiple genetic controls on Rhizobium meliloti syrA, a regulator of exopolysaccharide abundance.
Genetics - 1 Jan 1998
Barnett M J, Swanson J A, Long S R
Abstract excerpt
Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are produced by a wide assortment of bacteria including plant pathogens and rhizobial symbionts. Rhizobium meliloti mutants defective in EPS production fail to invade alfalfa nodules. Production of EPS in R. meliloti is likely controlled at several levels. We have charact...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, Regulator
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Polysaccharides, Bacterial
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sinorhizobium meliloti
- Symbiosis