RcgA and RcgR, Two Novel Proteins Involved in the Conjugative Transfer of Rhizobial Plasmids

ABSTRACT Rhizobia are Gram-negative bacteria that are able to establish a nitrogen-fixing symbiotic interaction with leguminous plants. Rhizobia genomes usually harbor several plasmids which can be transferred to other organisms by conjugation. Two main mechanisms of the regulation of rhizobial plas...

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Main Authors: Lucas G. Castellani, Abril Luchetti, Juliet F. Nilsson, Julieta Pérez-Giménez, Ben Struck, Andreas Schlüter, Alfred Pühler, Karsten Niehaus, David Romero, Mariano Pistorio, Gonzalo Torres Tejerizo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01949-22