Motility and Chemotaxis of Rhizobium meliloti in Soil
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VisN and VisR are global regulators of chemotaxis, flagellar, and motility genes in Sinorhizobium (Rhizobium) meliloti.
The known 41 flagellar, chemotaxis, and motility genes of Sinorhizobium (Rhizobium) meliloti contained in the "flagellar regulon" are organized as seven operons and six transcription units that map to a contiguous 45-kb chromosomal region. By probing gene expression on Western blots and with lacZ fusions, we have identified two master regulatory genes, visN and visR, contained in one operon. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.46.5.995-998.1983