Rhizobium etli CE3 carries vir gene homologs on a self-transmissible plasmid

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作者
Bittinger, MA
Gross, JA
Widom, J
Clardy, J
Handelsman, J
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Plant Pathol, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Program Mol & Cellular Biol, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] Cornell Univ, Dept Chem & Chem Biol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
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10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.9.1019
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
RosR is a transcriptional regulator important for determining cell-surface characteristics and nodulation competitiveness in Rhizobium etli CE3, We identified a 15-kb region that contains genes with similarity to members of the virB, virC, virG, and virE operons of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and demonstrated that RosR directly regulates one operon in this region. These genes were located on plasmid pa of R. etli CE3, which is self-transmissible between R. etli and A. tumefaciens.
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