bradyrhizobium

Summary

Summary: A genus of gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria usually containing granules of poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate. They characteristically invade the root hairs of leguminous plants and act as intracellular symbionts.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Thiosulfate-dependent chemolithoautotrophic growth of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Sachiko Masuda
    Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2 1 1 Katahira, Aoba ku, Sendai 980 8577, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 76:2402-9. 2010
  2. ncbi Complete transcriptome of the soybean root hair cell, a single-cell model, and its alteration in response to Bradyrhizobium japonicum infection
    Marc Libault
    Division of Plant Sciences, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, CS Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
    Plant Physiol 152:541-52. 2010
  3. ncbi Isovaleryl-homoserine lactone, an unusual branched-chain quorum-sensing signal from the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Andrea Lindemann
    Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:16765-70. 2011
  4. ncbi The PhyR-sigma(EcfG) signalling cascade is involved in stress response and symbiotic efficiency in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Benjamin Gourion
    ETH, Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Microbiol 73:291-305. 2009
  5. ncbi An integrated proteomics and transcriptomics reference data set provides new insights into the Bradyrhizobium japonicum bacteroid metabolism in soybean root nodules
    Nathanael Delmotte
    ETH, Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland
    Proteomics 10:1391-400. 2010
  6. ncbi Novel and nodulation-regulated microRNAs in soybean roots
    Senthil Subramanian
    Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
    BMC Genomics 9:160. 2008
  7. ncbi Bradavidin II from Bradyrhizobium japonicum: a new avidin-like biotin-binding protein
    Satu H Helppolainen
    Institute of Medical Technology, Biokatu 6, FI 33014 University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Finland
    Biochim Biophys Acta 1784:1002-10. 2008
  8. ncbi Simultaneous interaction of Arabidopsis thaliana with Bradyrhizobium Sp. strain ORS278 and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 leads to complex transcriptome changes
    Fabienne Cartieaux
    UMR113, Universite Montpellier 2, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, CIRAD, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d Agronomie de Montpellier, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CC 002, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21:244-59. 2008
  9. ncbi Enhanced attachment of Bradyrhizobium japonicum to soybean through reduced root colonization of internally seedborne microorganisms
    N W Oehrle
    University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Biochemistry 65211, USA
    Can J Microbiol 46:600-6. 2000
  10. ncbi Phosphatidylcholine levels in Bradyrhizobium japonicum membranes are critical for an efficient symbiosis with the soybean host plant
    A C Minder
    Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, CH 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Microbiol 39:1186-98. 2001

Research Grants

  1. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF HEME PROTEIN ACTIVE SITES
    JAMES SATTERLEE; Fiscal Year: 2005
  2. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF HEME PROTEIN ACTIVE SITES
    JAMES SATTERLEE; Fiscal Year: 2000
  3. STUDIES OF THE DYNAMICS OF HEME PROTEIN ACTIVE SITES
    JAMES SATTERLEE; Fiscal Year: 1993
  4. Regulation of Bacterial Heme Metabolism
    MARK R O apos BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
  5. Regulation of Bacterial Heme Biosynthesis
    MARK O BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2007
  6. 2004 Tetrapyrroles Gordon Conference
    MARK O BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2004
  7. Regulation of Bacterial Heme Metabolism
    MARK R O apos BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2011

Detail Information

Publications203 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Thiosulfate-dependent chemolithoautotrophic growth of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Sachiko Masuda
    Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2 1 1 Katahira, Aoba ku, Sendai 980 8577, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 76:2402-9. 2010
    Thiosulfate-oxidizing sox gene homologues were found at four loci (I, II, III, and IV) on the genome of Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110, a symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium in soil. In fact, B...
  2. ncbi Complete transcriptome of the soybean root hair cell, a single-cell model, and its alteration in response to Bradyrhizobium japonicum infection
    Marc Libault
    Division of Plant Sciences, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, CS Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
    Plant Physiol 152:541-52. 2010
    ..g. soybean [Glycine max] and Bradyrhizobium japonicum) initiated by the infection of plant root hair cells by the symbiont...
  3. ncbi Isovaleryl-homoserine lactone, an unusual branched-chain quorum-sensing signal from the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Andrea Lindemann
    Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:16765-70. 2011
    ..Here we report that BjaI from the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110 is closely related to RpaI and BtaI and catalyzes the synthesis of isovaleryl-HSL (IV-HSL), ..
  4. ncbi The PhyR-sigma(EcfG) signalling cascade is involved in stress response and symbiotic efficiency in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Benjamin Gourion
    ETH, Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Microbiol 73:291-305. 2009
    ..Here, we investigate the role of these two regulators in the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110...
  5. ncbi An integrated proteomics and transcriptomics reference data set provides new insights into the Bradyrhizobium japonicum bacteroid metabolism in soybean root nodules
    Nathanael Delmotte
    ETH, Institute of Microbiology, Zurich, Switzerland
    Proteomics 10:1391-400. 2010
    b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum, a gram-negative soil bacterium that establishes an N(2)-fixing symbiosis with its legume host soybean (Glycine max), has been used as a symbiosis model system...
  6. ncbi Novel and nodulation-regulated microRNAs in soybean roots
    Senthil Subramanian
    Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 N Warson Road, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
    BMC Genomics 9:160. 2008
    ..Symbiosis between legumes (e.g. soybean) and rhizobia bacteria (e.g. Bradyrhizobium japonicum) results in root nodules where the majority of biological nitrogen fixation occurs...
  7. ncbi Bradavidin II from Bradyrhizobium japonicum: a new avidin-like biotin-binding protein
    Satu H Helppolainen
    Institute of Medical Technology, Biokatu 6, FI 33014 University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Finland
    Biochim Biophys Acta 1784:1002-10. 2008
    ..Structural elements of bradavidin II such as an interface residue pattern or biotin contact residues could be used as such or transferred to engineered avidin forms to improve or create new tools for biotechnological applications...
  8. ncbi Simultaneous interaction of Arabidopsis thaliana with Bradyrhizobium Sp. strain ORS278 and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 leads to complex transcriptome changes
    Fabienne Cartieaux
    UMR113, Universite Montpellier 2, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, CIRAD, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d Agronomie de Montpellier, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, CC 002, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21:244-59. 2008
    ..Here, we show for the first time that a photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium sp...
  9. ncbi Enhanced attachment of Bradyrhizobium japonicum to soybean through reduced root colonization of internally seedborne microorganisms
    N W Oehrle
    University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Biochemistry 65211, USA
    Can J Microbiol 46:600-6. 2000
    ..soybean (Glycine max) seed, introducing an undefined parameter into studies on attachment and infection by Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Bacterial isolates from surface-sterilized soybean seed, cv. Williams 82 and cv...
  10. ncbi Phosphatidylcholine levels in Bradyrhizobium japonicum membranes are critical for an efficient symbiosis with the soybean host plant
    A C Minder
    Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, CH 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Microbiol 39:1186-98. 2001
    ..Here, we report on the isolation of a Bradyrhizobium japonicum gene (pmtA) encoding the phospholipid N-methyltransferase PmtA...
  11. ncbi Detection of homoserine lactone-like quorum sensing molecules in bradyrhizobium strains
    Neelawan Pongsilp
    Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA
    Curr Microbiol 51:250-4. 2005
    One hundred and forty-two Bradyrhizobium strains were screened for their ability to produce N-acyl homoserine lactone-like molecules (AHLs) by using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens biosensor strain containing a traI-lacZ fusion...
  12. ncbi Functional characterization of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum modA and modB genes involved in molybdenum transport
    Maria J Delgado
    Departamento de Microbiologia del Suelo y Sistemas Simbioticos, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, CSIC, PO Box 419, 18080 Granada, Spain
    Microbiology 152:199-207. 2006
    A modABC gene cluster that encodes an ABC-type, high-affinity molybdate transporter from Bradyrhizobium japonicum has been isolated and characterized. B...
  13. ncbi A proximal arginine R206 participates in switching of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum FixL oxygen sensor
    Marie Alda Gilles-Gonzalez
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390 9038, USA
    J Mol Biol 360:80-9. 2006
    ..We assessed the contributions of this residue in Bradyrhizobium japonicum FixL by determining the effects of an R206A substitution on the heme-PAS structure, ligand affinity, ..
  14. ncbi Population density-dependent regulation of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum nodulation genes
    J T Loh
    Center for Legume Research, Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
    Mol Microbiol 42:37-46. 2001
    The nodulation genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum are essential for infection and establishment of a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis...
  15. ncbi Generation of Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants with increased N2O reductase activity by selection after introduction of a mutated dnaQ gene
    Manabu Itakura
    Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980 8577, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 74:7258-64. 2008
    We obtained two beneficial mutants of Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110 with increased nitrous oxide (N(2)O) reductase (N(2)OR) activity by introducing a plasmid containing a mutated B...
  16. ncbi Identification of active-site residues in Bradyrhizobium japonicum malonyl-coenzyme A synthetase
    H M Koo
    Department of Biochemistry, College of Science, Bioproducts Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    Arch Biochem Biophys 378:167-74. 2000
    Malonyl-CoA synthetase (MCS) has been previously purified and characterized from Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110. The gene encoding this enzyme is now cloned, sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli...
  17. ncbi Analysis of the secretome of the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Jana Hempel
    Institut fur Genetik, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    J Biotechnol 140:51-8. 2009
    Proteins from the supernatant of Bradyrhizobium japonicum were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and stained with Coomassie. This revealed more than 100 protein spots...
  18. ncbi The major Nod factor of Bradyrhizobium japonicum promotes early growth of soybean and corn
    A Souleimanov
    Department of Plant Science, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, 21, 111 Lakeshore Road, Ste Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada H9X 3V9
    J Exp Bot 53:1929-34. 2002
    ..These results suggest that Nod factor, besides mediating early stages of nodulation, has more general plant growth-promoting effects...
  19. ncbi Unexpectedly diverse Mesorhizobium strains and Rhizobium leguminosarum nodulate native legume genera of New Zealand, while introduced legume weeds are nodulated by Bradyrhizobium species
    Bevan S Weir
    Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
    Appl Environ Microbiol 70:5980-7. 2004
    ..In contrast, all sequences from isolates from introduced weeds aligned with Bradyrhizobium species but formed clusters distinct from existing named species...
  20. ncbi Effect of Bradyrhizobium photosynthesis on stem nodulation of Aeschynomene sensitiva
    E Giraud
    Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement, Ecole Nationale d Agronomie de Montpellier, Cedex, France
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:14795-800. 2000
    ..the effect of bacterial photosynthesis during symbiosis, we generated a photosynthesis-negative mutant of the Bradyrhizobium sp. strain ORS278 symbiont of Aeschynomene sensitiva...
  21. ncbi Oxidation of elemental sulfur by Fusarium solani strain THIF01 harboring endobacterium Bradyrhizobium sp
    Xian Shu Li
    Department of Material Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Showa Ku, Nagoya, Japan
    Microb Ecol 60:96-104. 2010
    ..16S rRNA gene and analyses of full 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated strain THIF01 harbors an endobacterium Bradyrhizobium sp.; however, involvement of the bacterium in the sulfur oxidation is still unclear...
  22. ncbi Phylogenetic analysis of the genera Bradyrhizobium, Mesorhizobium, Rhizobium and Sinorhizobium on the basis of 16S rRNA gene and internally transcribed spacer region sequences
    Soon Wo Kwon
    Korean Agricultural Culture Collection KACC, Genetic Resources Division, National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Rural Development Administration RDA, Suwon 441 707, Korea
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:263-70. 2005
    ..Phylogenetic relationships between these Korean isolates and reference strains of the genera Bradyrhizobium, Mesorhizobium, Rhizobium and Sinorhizobium were analysed using their 16S rRNA gene and internally transcribed ..
  23. ncbi Conflicting phylogeographic patterns in rRNA and nifD indicate regionally restricted gene transfer in Bradyrhizobium
    Matthew A Parker
    Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
    Microbiology 148:2557-65. 2002
    ..of the 16S rRNA gene and the nitrogenase alpha-subunit gene (nifD) were observed among 38 strains of Bradyrhizobium sp. nodule bacteria from North America, Central America, Asia and Australia...
  24. ncbi Lack of galactose or galacturonic acid in Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110 exopolysaccharide leads to different symbiotic responses in soybean
    Juan Ignacio Quelas
    Instituto de Biotecnologia y Biologia Molecular, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata y CCT La Plata CONICET, Calles 47 y 115 1900 La Plata, Argentina
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 23:1592-604. 2010
    Exopolysaccharide (EPS) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Bradyrhizobium japonicum are important for infection and nodulation of soybean (Glycine max), although their roles are not completely understood...
  25. ncbi Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of Bradyrhizobium japonicum PutA-membrane associations
    Weimin Zhang
    Department of Biochemistry, Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
    Arch Biochem Biophys 445:174-83. 2006
    ..In other gram-negative bacteria such as Bradyrhizobium japonicum, PutA lacks DNA binding activity and functions only as a proline catabolic enzyme...
  26. ncbi Disparate pathways for the biogenesis of cytochrome oxidases in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Doris Bühler
    Institute of Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Wolfgang Pauli Strasse 10, CH 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Biol Chem 285:15704-13. 2010
    This work addresses the biogenesis of heme-copper terminal oxidases in Bradyrhizobium japonicum, the nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiont of soybean. B. japonicum has four quinol oxidases and four cytochrome oxidases...
  27. ncbi Phylogenetic analyses of symbiotic nodulation genes support vertical and lateral gene co-transfer within the Bradyrhizobium genus
    Lionel Moulin
    , IRD-INRA-CIRAD-ENSAM, 34398 Montpellier, France
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 30:720-32. 2004
    ..PCR amplification, sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of nodA gene sequences from a collection of diverse Bradyrhizobium strains revealed the monophyletic character with the possible exception of photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium, ..
  28. ncbi A new nitrilase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110. Gene cloning, biochemical characterization and substrate specificity
    Dunming Zhu
    Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
    J Biotechnol 133:327-33. 2008
    A nitrilase gene blr3397 from Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110 was cloned and over-expressed in Escherichia coli, and the encoded protein was purified to give a nitrilase with a single band of about 34.5kD on SDS-PAGE...
  29. ncbi Rhizobial adaptation to hosts, a new facet in the legume root-nodule symbiosis
    Marion Koch
    Institute of Microbiology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 23:784-90. 2010
    ..The host-adaptation concept was elaborated with Bradyrhizobium japonicum and three different legumes (soybean, cowpea, and siratro)...
  30. ncbi Discovery of a haem uptake system in the soil bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    A Nienaber
    Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Schmelzbergstrasse 7, CH 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Microbiol 41:787-800. 2001
    In Bradyrhizobium japonicum, the nitrogen-fixing symbiont of soybeans, we have identified a haem uptake system, Hmu, that comprises a cluster of nine open reading frames...
  31. ncbi Control of peripheral light-harvesting complex synthesis by a bacteriophytochrome in the aerobic photosynthetic bacterium Bradyrhizobium strain BTAi1
    Marianne Jaubert
    Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, IRD, CIRAD, AGRO M, INRA, UM2, TA A 82 J, Campus de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    J Bacteriol 190:5824-31. 2008
    The recent sequence analysis of the photosynthetic and plant-symbiotic Bradyrhizobium sp. strain BTAi1 revealed the unexpected presence of a pucBA operon encoding the apoproteins of peripheral light-harvesting (LH) complexes...
  32. ncbi In situ phylogenetic structure and diversity of wild Bradyrhizobium communities
    J L Sachs
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 75:4727-35. 2009
    ..clustering and diversity were investigated in a natural community of rhizobial bacteria from the genus Bradyrhizobium. These bacteria live in the soil and also form beneficial root nodule symbioses with legumes, including those ..
  33. ncbi Origins of cheating and loss of symbiosis in wild Bradyrhizobium
    J L Sachs
    Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
    J Evol Biol 23:1075-89. 2010
    ..Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bradyrhizobium rDNA and transmissible symbiosis-island loci suggest that the cheater evolved via symbiotic gene transfer...
  34. ncbi Divergent Bradyrhizobium symbionts on Tachigali versicolor from Barro Colorado Island, Panama
    M A Parker
    Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton 13902 6000, USA
    Syst Appl Microbiol 23:585-90. 2000
    ..versicolor fall into the genus Bradyrhizobium. However, they are divergent from the bradyrhizobia associated with other BCI legumes, as well as from other ..
  35. ncbi Large-scale transposon mutagenesis of photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium sp. strain ORS278 reveals new genetic loci putatively important for nod-independent symbiosis with Aeschynomene indica
    Katia Bonaldi
    Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, IRD, UMR IRD SupAgro INRA UM2 CIRAD, F 34398 Montpellier, France
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 23:760-70. 2010
    Photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium strains possess the unusual ability to form nitrogen-fixing nodules on a specific group of legumes in the absence of Nod factors...
  36. ncbi The Bradyrhizobium japonicum napEDABC genes encoding the periplasmic nitrate reductase are essential for nitrate respiration
    Maria J Delgado
    Departamento de Microbiologia del Suelo y Sistemas Simbioticos, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, CSIC, E 18080 Granada, Spain
    Microbiology 149:3395-403. 2003
    The napEDABC gene cluster that encodes the periplasmic nitrate reductase from Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110 has been isolated and characterized...
  37. ncbi Transcription profiling of soybean nodulation by Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Laurent Brechenmacher
    National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, Divisions of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21:631-45. 2008
    ..microarrays, we monitored gene expression in soybean (Glycine max) inoculated with the nodulating bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum 4, 8, and 16 days after inoculation, timepoints that coincide with nodule development and the onset ..
  38. ncbi Population genetics and phylogenetic inference in bacterial molecular systematics: the roles of migration and recombination in Bradyrhizobium species cohesion and delineation
    Pablo Vinuesa
    Centro de Investigacion Sobre Fijacion de Nitrogeno, Programa de Ecología Molecular y Microbiana, UNAM, Av Universidad s n, Col Chamilpa, AP 565 A, Cuernavaca CP 62210, Morelos, Mexico
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 34:29-54. 2005
    A combination of population genetics and phylogenetic inference methods was used to delineate Bradyrhizobium species and to uncover the evolutionary forces acting at the population-species interface of this bacterial genus...
  39. ncbi A comparative proteomic evaluation of culture grown vs nodule isolated Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Annamraju D Sarma
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Proteomics 6:3008-28. 2006
    Total protein extract of Bradyrhizobium japonicum cultivated in HM media were resolved by 2-D PAGE using narrow range IPG strips...
  40. ncbi A two-component regulator mediates population-density-dependent expression of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum nodulation genes
    John Loh
    Center for Legume Research and Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
    J Bacteriol 184:1759-66. 2002
    b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum nod gene expression was previously shown to be population density dependent. Induction of the nod genes is highest at low culture density and repressed at high population densities...
  41. ncbi Identification of genistein-inducible and type III-secreted proteins of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Christin Süss
    Institut fur Genetik, Technische Universitat Dresden, Helmholtzstrasse 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany
    J Biotechnol 126:69-77. 2006
    Flagellin is the bulk protein secreted by Bradyrhizobium japonicum. For easier identification of minor protein fractions, the flagellin genes bll6865 and bll6866 were deleted...
  42. ncbi The promoters of two isoflavone synthase genes respond differentially to nodulation and defense signals in transgenic soybean roots
    Senthil Subramanian
    Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Road, St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
    Plant Mol Biol 54:623-39. 2004
    ..b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum, a diazotropic symbiont of soybean, induced the expression of IFS1:GUS in root hairs and xylem poles ..
  43. ncbi An oligonucleotide microarray resource for transcriptional profiling of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Woo Suk Chang
    National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 20:1298-307. 2007
    ..70-mer oligonucleotides, representing 8,453 open reading frames (ORFs), was constructed based on the Bradyrhizobium japonicum strain USDA110 genomic sequence...
  44. ncbi Insights learned from pBTAi1, a 229-kb accessory plasmid from Bradyrhizobium sp. strain BTAi1 and prevalence of accessory plasmids in other Bradyrhizobium sp. strains
    Eddie J Cytryn
    Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    ISME J 2:158-70. 2008
    ..silico, physiological and in planta analyses were used to characterize pBTAi1, a 229-kb accessory plasmid from Bradyrhizobium sp...
  45. ncbi Flavonoid-responsive nodY-lacZ expression in three phylogenetically different Bradyrhizobium groups
    Tadashi Yokoyama
    Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Saiwai cho 3 5 8, Fuchu, Tokyo 183 8509, Japan
    Can J Microbiol 54:401-10. 2008
    ..analysis using the nodD1YABC gene probe showed the genetic diversity of common nodD1ABC gene regions of Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Bradyrhizobium elkanii, and the Thai soybean Bradyrhizobium...
  46. ncbi Cowpea and peanut in southern Africa are nodulated by diverse Bradyrhizobium strains harboring nodulation genes that belong to the large pantropical clade common in Africa
    Emma T Steenkamp
    Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 48:1131-44. 2008
    ..unguiculata) and peanut (Arachis hypogaea) in southern Africa are nodulated by a genetically diverse group of Bradyrhizobium strains...
  47. ncbi Characterization of two sets of subpolar flagella in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Masaomi Kanbe
    Department of Life Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, 562 Nanatsuka, Shobara, Hiroshima 727 0023, Japan
    J Bacteriol 189:1083-9. 2007
    b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum is one of the soil bacteria that form nodules on soybean roots. The cell has two sets of flagellar systems, one thick flagellum and a few thin flagella, uniquely growing at subpolar positions...
  48. ncbi Expression of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum type III secretion system in legume nodules and analysis of the associated tts box promoter
    Susanne Zehner
    Institute of Genetics, Dresden University of Technology, Helmholtzstrasse 10, Dresden, Germany
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21:1087-93. 2008
    In Bradyrhizobium japonicum, as in some other rhizobia, symbiotic efficiency is influenced by a type III secretion system (T3SS)...
  49. ncbi Nodulation gene regulation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum: a unique integration of global regulatory circuits
    John Loh
    Department of Plant Microbiology and Pathology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 69:10-7. 2003
  50. ncbi Comprehensive assessment of the regulons controlled by the FixLJ-FixK2-FixK1 cascade in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Socorro Mesa
    Institute of Microbiology, ETH, Wolfgang Pauli Strasse 10, CH 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Bacteriol 190:6568-79. 2008
    Symbiotic N(2) fixation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum is controlled by a complex transcription factor network...
  51. ncbi Mutational and transcriptional analysis of the type III secretion system of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Andrea Krause
    Institut fur Genetik, Technische Universitat Dresden, Mommsenstrasse 13, 01062 Dresden, Germany
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 15:1228-35. 2002
    Sequencing the symbiotic region of Bradyrhizobium japonicum revealed a gene cluster (tts) encoding a type III secretion system (TTSS) that is similar to those found in Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 and Rhizobium strain NGR234...
  52. ncbi Conservation of type III secretion system genes in Bradyrhizobium isolated from soybean
    Sylvie Mazurier
    INRA Université de Bourgogne, UMR Microbiologie et Géochimie des Sols, CMSE, Dijon, France
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 259:317-25. 2006
    The distribution of rhcRST genes encoding the type III secretion system (T3SS) in a collection of Bradyrhizobium strains was characterized by PCR and Southern blot hybridization...
  53. ncbi Investigation of downstream signals of the soybean autoregulation of nodulation receptor kinase GmNARK
    Mark Kinkema
    The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 21:1337-48. 2008
    ..biosynthesis as well as JA-response genes were regulated systemically but not locally by root inoculation with Bradyrhizobium japonicum...
  54. ncbi Functional role of Bradyrhizobium japonicum trehalose biosynthesis and metabolism genes during physiological stress and nodulation
    Masayuki Sugawara
    Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 76:1071-81. 2010
    ..Previous studies reported that the trehalose biosynthetic genes (otsA, treS, and treY) in Bradyrhizobium japonicum were induced by salinity and desiccation stresses...
  55. ncbi Perception of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Nod factor by soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] root hairs under abiotic stress conditions
    H M Duzan
    Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada H9X 3V9
    J Exp Bot 55:2641-6. 2004
    ..Early stages of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr...
  56. ncbi Transcriptional and physiological responses of Bradyrhizobium japonicum to desiccation-induced stress
    Eddie J Cytryn
    Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA corrected
    J Bacteriol 189:6751-62. 2007
    ..study, we used genome-wide transcriptional analyses to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the response of Bradyrhizobium japonicum to drought...
  57. ncbi Dissection of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum NifA+sigma54 regulon, and identification of a ferredoxin gene (fdxN) for symbiotic nitrogen fixation
    Felix Hauser
    Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Wolfgang Pauli Strasse 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
    Mol Genet Genomics 278:255-71. 2007
    ..network for expression control of symbiotic and accessory genes in the nitrogen-fixing soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum...
  58. ncbi The hmuQ and hmuD genes from Bradyrhizobium japonicum encode heme-degrading enzymes
    Sumant Puri
    Department of Biochemistry, 140 Farber Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
    J Bacteriol 188:6476-82. 2006
    ..b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum can use heme as an iron source, but no heme-degrading oxygenase has been described...
  59. ncbi Oxidative stress promotes degradation of the Irr protein to regulate haem biosynthesis in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Jianhua Yang
    Department of Biochemistry and Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
    Mol Microbiol 60:209-18. 2006
    ..In the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum, expression of the gene encoding the haem biosynthesis enzyme delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (..
  60. ncbi Endogenous isoflavones are essential for the establishment of symbiosis between soybean and Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Senthil Subramanian
    Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, MO 63132, USA
    Plant J 48:261-73. 2006
    ..are essential for nodulation of soybean roots because of their ability to induce the nodulation genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum...
  61. ncbi The Iron control element, acting in positive and negative control of iron-regulated Bradyrhizobium japonicum genes, is a target for the Irr protein
    Gesine Rudolph
    Institute of Microbiology, , Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, , Switzerland
    J Bacteriol 188:733-44. 2006
    b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum, the nitrogen-fixing soybean symbiont, possesses a heme uptake system encoded by the gene cluster hmuVUT-hmuR-exbBD-tonB...
  62. ncbi Effect of two AMF life strategies on the tripartite symbiosis with Bradyrhizobium japonicum and soybean
    Pedro M Antunes
    Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
    Mycorrhiza 16:167-73. 2006
    ..mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with different life-history strategies to the tripartite symbiosis with soybeans and Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Kirchner) Jordan...
  63. ncbi Jasmonates induce Nod factor production by Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    F Mabood
    Plant Science Department, Macdonald Campus of McGill University, 21, 111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Que, Canada
    Plant Physiol Biochem 44:759-65. 2006
    ..We have previously demonstrated that jasmonates can induce nod genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum when measured by beta-galactosidase activity...
  64. ncbi Transcription activation in vitro by the Bradyrhizobium japonicum regulatory protein FixK2
    Socorro Mesa
    Institute of Microbiology, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, CH 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Bacteriol 187:3329-38. 2005
    In Bradyrhizobium japonicum, the N2-fixing root nodule endosymbiont of soybean, a group of genes required for microaerobic, anaerobic, or symbiotic growth is controlled by FixK2, a key regulator that is part of the FixLJ-FixK2 cascade...
  65. ncbi Bradyrhizobium canariense sp. nov., an acid-tolerant endosymbiont that nodulates endemic genistoid legumes (Papilionoideae: Genisteae) from the Canary Islands, along with Bradyrhizobium japonicum bv. genistearum, Bradyrhizobium genospecies alpha and Brady
    Pablo Vinuesa
    Centro de Ciencias Genomicas, UNAM, Av Universidad s n, Col Chamilpa, CP 62210, AP 565 A, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:569-75. 2005
    Highly diverse Bradyrhizobium strains nodulate genistoid legumes (brooms) in the Canary Islands, Morocco, Spain and the Americas...
  66. ncbi Novel avidin-like protein from a root nodule symbiotic bacterium, Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Henri R Nordlund
    Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Nanoscience Center, P. O. Box 35 (YAB, , Finland
    J Biol Chem 280:13250-5. 2005
    b>Bradyrhizobium japonicum is an important nitrogenfixing symbiotic bacterium, which can form root nodules on soybeans...
  67. ncbi Rhizobitoxine production in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 by Bradyrhizobium elkanii rtxACDEFG genes
    Masayuki Sugawara
    Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Katahira, Aoba ku, Sendai, Japan
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 269:29-35. 2007
    ..for production of rhizobitoxine, an inhibitor of ethylene biosynthesis in plants, directed by the rtx genes of Bradyrhizobium elkanii...
  68. ncbi Two heme binding sites are involved in the regulated degradation of the bacterial iron response regulator (Irr) protein
    Jianhua Yang
    Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:7671-6. 2005
    The iron response regulator (Irr) protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a conditionally stable protein that degrades in response to cellular iron availability...
  69. ncbi Evidence of horizontal transfer of symbiotic genes from a Bradyrhizobium japonicum inoculant strain to indigenous diazotrophs Sinorhizobium (Ensifer) fredii and Bradyrhizobium elkanii in a Brazilian Savannah soil
    Fernando Gomes Barcellos
    Embrapa Soja, Cx Postal 231, 86001 970 Londrina, Parana, Brazil
    Appl Environ Microbiol 73:2635-43. 2007
    ..Both soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill) and compatible Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Bradyrhizobium elkanii strains are exotic to Brazil and have been massively introduced in the ..
  70. ncbi Legumes symbioses: absence of Nod genes in photosynthetic bradyrhizobia
    Eric Giraud
    Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Centre de Coopération International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Universite Montpellier 2, France
    Science 316:1307-12. 2007
    ..Here we show by complete genome sequencing of two symbiotic, photosynthetic, Bradyrhizobium strains, BTAi1 and ORS278, that canonical nodABC genes and typical lipochito-oligosaccharidic Nod factors are ..
  71. ncbi Effect of trehalose on survival of Bradyrhizobium japonicum during desiccation
    J G Streeter
    Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University OARDC, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
    J Appl Microbiol 95:484-91. 2003
    ..The major purpose of this study was to identify conditions under which alpha,alpha-trehalose would improve survival of Bradyrhizobium japonicum during desiccation.
  72. ncbi Small-subunit rRNA genotyping of rhizobia nodulating Australian Acacia spp
    B Lafay
    Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
    Appl Environ Microbiol 67:396-402. 2001
    ..J. Burdon, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:3989-3997, 1998). Eight of these genomospecies belonged to the Bradyrhizobium lineage and accounted for 96.6% of the isolates. The remaining genomospecies corresponded to Rhizobium tropici...
  73. ncbi Stimulation of adhesiveness, infectivity, and competitiveness for nodulation of Bradyrhizobium japonicum by its pretreatment with soybean seed lectin
    A R Lodeiro
    Instituto de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata UNLP, Calles 47 y 115 1900, La Plata, Argentina
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 188:177-84. 2000
    Soybean seed lectin stimulates adsorption of Bradyrhizobium japonicum to its host roots...
  74. ncbi Two genes encoding a putative multidrug efflux pump of the RND/MFP family are cotranscribed with an rpoH gene in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    P Krummenacher
    Institut fur Mikrobiologie, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
    Gene 241:247-54. 2000
    The rpoH3 gene of Bradyrhizobium japonicum codes for one of three sigma32-type transcription factors in this organism and is flanked by rag (rpoH3-associated) genes comprising the chromosomal arrangement ragABrpoH3ragCD...
  75. ncbi Potential symbiosis-specific genes uncovered by sequencing a 410-kilobase DNA region of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum chromosome
    M Gottfert
    Institut fur Genetik, Technische Universitat Dresden, D 01062 Dresden, Germany
    J Bacteriol 183:1405-12. 2001
    The physical and genetic map of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum chromosome revealed that nitrogen fixation and nodulation genes are clustered...
  76. ncbi Structure of the soluble domain of a membrane-anchored thioredoxin-like protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum reveals unusual properties
    G Capitani
    Biochemisches Institut, Universitat Zurich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Mol Biol 311:1037-48. 2001
    TlpA is an unusual thioredoxin-like protein present in the nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum...
  77. ncbi Symbiotic hydrogenase activity in Bradyrhizobium sp. (Vigna) increases nitrogen content in Vigna unguiculata plants
    Cecilia Baginsky
    Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biotechnology, , , Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:7536-8. 2005
    b>Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) and Bradyrhizobium sp. (Vigna) mutants in which hydrogenase (hup) activity was affected were constructed and analyzed. Vigna unguiculata plants inoculated with the Bradyrhizobium sp...
  78. ncbi Global protein expression pattern of Bradyrhizobium japonicum bacteroids: a prelude to functional proteomics
    Annamraju D Sarma
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
    Proteomics 5:4170-84. 2005
    ..understanding the process of symbiotic nitrogen fixation between the legume soybean and the soil bacteria Bradyrhizobium japonicum, we examined the total protein expression pattern of the nodule bacteria, often referred to as ..
  79. ncbi An iron uptake operon required for proper nodule development in the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-soybean symbiosis
    Heather P Benson
    Department of Biological Sciences, 6044 Gilman, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    Mol Plant Microbe Interact 18:950-9. 2005
    ..Each environment presents different challenges with respect to iron acquisition. The soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum 61A152 can utilize a variety of siderophores (Fe[III]-specific ligands)...
  80. ncbi Diverse rhizobia associated with woody legumes Wisteria sinensis, Cercis racemosa and Amorpha fruticosa grown in the temperate zone of China
    Jie Liu
    Key Laboratory of Agro Microbial Resource and Application, Ministry of Agriculture Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, 100094 Beijing, PR China
    Syst Appl Microbiol 28:465-77. 2005
    ..were defined in numerical taxonomy, which corresponded to distinct groups within the genera Agrobacterium, Bradyrhizobium, Mesorhizobium and Rhizobium in 16S and 23S rRNA gene PCR-RFLP...
  81. ncbi Diverse bacteria isolated from root nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris and species within the genera Campylotropis and Cassia grown in China
    Su-Zhen Han
    Key Laboratory of Agro-Microbial Resource and Application, Ministry of Agriculture/Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China
    Syst Appl Microbiol 28:265-76. 2005
    ..four species of Cassia grown in the central zones of China were classified into three groups within the genus Bradyrhizobium. One of these three groups could be defined as Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Our results demonstrated that P...
  82. ncbi SNP identification and SNAP marker development for a GmNARK gene controlling supernodulation in soybean
    M Y Kim
    Department of Plant Science, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul, 151-921, The Republic of Korea
    Theor Appl Genet 110:1003-10. 2005
    ..Therefore, use of this SNAP marker might be faster, cheaper, and more reproducible than using other genotyping methods, such as a cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence marker, which demand of restriction enzymes...
  83. ncbi Prevalence of Burkholderia sp. nodule symbionts on four mimosoid legumes from Barro Colorado Island, Panama
    Craig F Barrett
    Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
    Syst Appl Microbiol 28:57-65. 2005
    ..hymenaeafolium), 44 were Burkholderia strains while the rest were placed in Rhizobium, Mesorhizobium, or Bradyrhizobium. The Burkholderia strains displayed four distinct rRNA sequence types, ranging from 89% to 97% similarity for ..
  84. ncbi Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis enhanced the efficiency of inoculation with two Bradyrhizobium strains and Acacia holosericea growth
    S Andre
    UMR 113 CIRAD INRA IRD AGRO M UM2, Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, TA10 J, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier, France
    Mycorrhiza 15:357-64. 2005
    Two strains of Bradyrhizobium sp...
  85. ncbi Symbiotic Bradyrhizobium japonicum reduces N2O surrounding the soybean root system via nitrous oxide reductase
    Reiko Sameshima-Saito
    Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Katahira, Aoba ku, Sendai 980 8577, Japan
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:2526-32. 2006
    N(2)O reductase activity in soybean nodules formed with Bradyrhizobium japonicum was evaluated from N(2)O uptake and conversion of (15)N-N(2)O into (15)N-N(2)...
  86. ncbi Effect of organic N source on bacterial growth, lipo-chitooligosaccharide production, and early soybean nodulation by Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    S Supanjani
    Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Canada
    Can J Microbiol 52:227-36. 2006
    Production of Bradyrhizobium japonicum inoculants is problematic because high inoculation rates are necessary but expensive, while production of rhizobial Nod factors (lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs)), key signal molecules in the ..
  87. ncbi Bradyrhizobia isolated from root nodules of Parasponia (Ulmaceae) do not constitute a separate coherent lineage
    Benedicte Lafay
    CSIRO Plant Industry, PO Box 1600, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56:1013-8. 2006
    ..on the 16S rRNA or nodA gene sequences, but were scattered among other bradyrhizobia belonging to either the Bradyrhizobium japonicum or the Bradyrhizobium elkanii lineages...
  88. ncbi Bradyrhizobium elkanii, Bradyrhizobium yuanmingense and Bradyrhizobium japonicum are the main rhizobia associated with Vigna unguiculata and Vigna radiata in the subtropical region of China
    Yong Fa Zhang
    The Key Laboratory of Agro Microbial Resource and Application Ministry of Agriculture, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 285:146-54. 2008
    ..The results showed that 90% of the analyzed strains belonged to or were related to Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Bradyrhizobium liaoningense, Bradyrhizobium yuanmingense and Bradyrhizobium elkanii, while the ..
  89. ncbi Soybean seed extracts preferentially express genomic loci of Bradyrhizobium japonicum in the initial interaction with soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr
    Min Wei
    Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
    DNA Res 15:201-14. 2008
    ..In this study, the global expression profiles of Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110 in response to soybean (Glycine max) seed extracts (SSE) and genistein, a major soybean-..
  90. ncbi The genistein stimulon of Bradyrhizobium japonicum
    Kathrin Lang
    Institute of Genetics, Dresden University of Technology, Helmholtzstrasse 10, 01069, Dresden, Germany
    Mol Genet Genomics 279:203-11. 2008
    ..Here we report the genome-wide transcriptional response of Bradyrhizobium japonicum to genistein, an isoflavone secreted by soybean. About 100 genes were induced in the wild type...
  91. ncbi Plant science. Infectious heresy
    J Allan Downie
    Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
    Science 316:1296-7. 2007
  92. ncbi Diverse bacteria isolated from root nodules of Trifolium, Crotalaria and Mimosa grown in the subtropical regions of China
    Xiao Yun Liu
    Key Laboratory of Agro Microbial Resource and Application, Ministry of Agriculture College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100094, China
    Arch Microbiol 188:1-14. 2007
    ..proteins, sequencing of 16S rDNA and DNA-DNA hybridization grouped the isolates into 17 lineages belonging to Bradyrhizobium, Mesorhizobium, Rhizobium, Sinorhizobium and Burkholderia, as well as a non-symbiotic group of Agrobacterium...
  93. ncbi Nodulation gene regulation and quorum sensing control density-dependent suppression and restriction of nodulation in the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-soybean symbiosis
    Siriluck Jitacksorn
    University of Minnesota, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 74:3749-56. 2008
    ..Lambert and the nodulation-restricting plant introduction (PI) genotype PI 417566 by wild-type Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110 is regulated in a population-density-dependent manner...
  94. ncbi [Glutamate dehydrogenase activity of Bradyrhizobium japonicum in the presence of phytoregulators]
    N O Leonova
    Mikrobiol Z 68:20-6. 2006
    ..It was shown that all used phytoregulators stimulated glutamate dehydrogenase activity of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 71t (the strain with highly efficient symbiotic properties) 1.2-4.9 times...
  95. ncbi Isolation of a novel nodulin: a molecular marker of osmotic stress in Glycine max/Bradyrhizobium japonicum nodule
    Mathilde Clement
    , Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, 400 Routes des Chappes, 06903 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
    Plant Cell Environ 29:1841-52. 2006
    ..The symbiosis between soybean (Glycine max) and Bradyrhizobium japonicum, because of its extreme sensitivity to drought, was chosen as a model to analyse the response to ..
  96. ncbi Differential symbiotic response of phage-typed strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum with soybean cultivars
    Chinnaswamy Appunu
    Microbial Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
    J Microbiol 44:363-8. 2006
    In this study, native Bradyrhizobium strains were isolated from the host plant, Glycine max, harvested from fields in Madhya Pradesh, India, and were typed by lytic rhizobiophages...
  97. ncbi Phylogeny of nodulation genes and symbiotic properties of Genista tinctoria bradyrhizobia
    Michał Kalita
    Department of General Microbiology, M Curie Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka St, 20 033 Lublin, Poland
    Arch Microbiol 186:87-97. 2006
    ..sequences to those available in databanks revealed their highest sequence identities to nodulation loci of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus) strains and rhizobia from other genistoid legumes...
  98. ncbi Diversity among Bradyrhizobium isolates nodulating yardlong bean and sunnhemp in Guam
    Z You
    Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
    J Appl Microbiol 93:577-84. 2002
    ..that nodulate yardlong bean and sunnhemp in Guam were examined for genetic diversity and their relatedness to Bradyrhizobium japonicum and B. elkanii reference strains. Genomic DNA of 58 isolates of Bradyrhizobium spp...
  99. ncbi Genetic diversity of native bradyrhizobia isolated from soybeans (Glycine max L.) in different agricultural-ecological-climatic regions of India
    Chinnaswamy Appunu
    Microbial Genetics Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India
    Appl Environ Microbiol 74:5991-6. 2008
    ..Eight haplotypes assigned to the Bradyrhizobium genus were identified, and the genetic diversity was conserved across regions...
  100. ncbi [The significance of exometabolites in the formation and operation of the soybean-rhizobium symbiosis]
    E V Kirichenko
    Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol 40:567-70. 2004
    The effect of various inoculates of the soybean-specific strain of nodule bacteria Bradyrhizobium japonicum 634b (unwashed cells, cells washed from the exopolysaccharide-protein complex, and cells combined with the complex) on the ..
  101. ncbi A novel genetic locus outside the symbiotic island is required for effective symbiosis of Bradyrhizobium japonicum with soybean Glycine max
    Bernd Ulrich Becker
    Philipps University of Marburg, Faculty of Biology, Cell Biology and Applied Botany, Karl von Frisch Str 8, 35032 Marburg, Germany
    Res Microbiol 155:770-80. 2004
    In order to investigate the symbiotic interaction between soybean and Bradyrhizobium japonicum, TnphoA mutagenesis of the microsymbiont was performed. Mutant strain 2-10 was found to induce a strongly reduced number of ineffective nodules...

Research Grants28

  1. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF HEME PROTEIN ACTIVE SITES
    JAMES SATTERLEE; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..These include the FixLs from Bradyrhizobium japonicum (BjFixL) and Sinorhizobium meliloti (SmFixL) and the Direct Oxygen Sensor protein from E...
  2. STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF HEME PROTEIN ACTIVE SITES
    JAMES SATTERLEE; Fiscal Year: 2000
    ....
  3. STUDIES OF THE DYNAMICS OF HEME PROTEIN ACTIVE SITES
    JAMES SATTERLEE; Fiscal Year: 1993
    ..In addition we intend to use these results and others in order to test our ability to design and create mutants designed for a specific purpose, based upon inferences from the crystal structure...
  4. Regulation of Bacterial Heme Metabolism
    MARK R O apos BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..We discovered a regulatory protein called Irr (iron response regulator) from the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum that interacts directly with ferrochelatase...
  5. Regulation of Bacterial Heme Biosynthesis
    MARK O BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..The Irr protein from the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum represses the pathway at an early step under iron limitation to prevent protoporphyrin synthesis ..
  6. 2004 Tetrapyrroles Gordon Conference
    MARK O BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..Strengths of this Gordon conference are its disciplinary diversity, focus on new unpublished work, time for discussion, informal atmosphere and ban on dissemination of conference proceedings. ..
  7. Regulation of Bacterial Heme Metabolism
    MARK R O apos BRIAN; Fiscal Year: 2011
    ..We discovered a regulatory protein called Irr (iron response regulator) from the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum that interacts directly with ferrochelatase...