Rhizobium type III secretion systems: legume charmers or alarmers?
Mutagenesis and sequence analyses of rhizobial genomes have revealed the presence of genes encoding type III secretion systems. Considered as a machine used by plant and animal pathogens to deliver virulence factors into their hosts, this secretion apparatus has recently been proven to play a role in symbiotic bacteria-leguminous plant interactions.
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Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes Supérieures, Université de Genève, 1 ch de l'Impératrice, 1292, Chambésy-Genève, Switzerland. marie7@etu.unige.ch
Broughton
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Deakin
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D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000382:microbiology*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology
D001426:Bacterial Proteins