Lipogenesis and redox balance in nitrogen-fixing pea bacteroids
Within legume root nodules, rhizobia differentiate into bacteroids that oxidise host-derived dicarboxylic acids, which is assumed to occur via the TCA-cycle to generate NAD(P)H for reduction of N2. Metabolic flux analysis of laboratory grown Rhizobium leguminosarum showed that the flux from 13C-succ...
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American Society for Microbiology
2016
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