Rhizobia: from saprophytes to endosymbionts

P Poole, V Ramachandran, J Terpolilli - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Rhizobia are some of the best-studied plant microbiota. These oligotrophic
Alphaproteobacteria or Betaproteobacteria form symbioses with their legume hosts …

Nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium-legume symbiosis: are polyploidy and host peptide-governed symbiont differentiation general principles of endosymbiosis?

G Maróti, É Kondorosi - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The symbiosis between rhizobia soil bacteria and legumes is facultative and initiated by
nitrogen starvation of the host plant. Exchange of signal molecules between the partners …

Medicago truncatula symbiotic peptide NCR247 contributes to bacteroid differentiation through multiple mechanisms

A Farkas, G Maróti, H Dürgő… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Symbiosis between rhizobia soil bacteria and legume plants results in the formation of root
nodules where plant cells are fully packed with nitrogen fixing bacteria. In the host cells, the …

[HTML][HTML] Chaperone networking facilitates protein targeting to the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane

MP Castanié-Cornet, N Bruel, P Genevaux - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nascent polypeptides emerging from the ribosome are assisted by a pool of molecular
chaperones and targeting factors, which enable them to efficiently partition as cytosolic …

Chaperonin 60: a paradoxical, evolutionarily conserved protein family with multiple moonlighting functions

B Henderson, MA Fares, PA Lund - Biological Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chaperonin 60 is the prototypic molecular chaperone, an essential protein in eukaryotes
and prokaryotes, whose sequence conservation provides an excellent basis for …

Multiple chaperonins in bacteria–why so many?

PA Lund - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2009 - academic.oup.com
A significant proportion of bacteria express two or more chaperonin genes. Chaperonins are
a group of molecular chaperones, defined by sequence similarity, required for the folding of …

Terminal bacteroid differentiation in the legume− rhizobium symbiosis: nodule‐specific cysteine‐rich peptides and beyond

B Alunni, B Gourion - New Phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Terminal bacteroid differentiation (TBD) is a remarkable case of bacterial cell differentiation
that occurs after rhizobia are released intracellularly within plant cells of symbiotic legume …

Response to temperature stress in rhizobia

A Alexandre, S Oliveira - Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
It is well established that soil is a challenging environment for bacteria, where conditions
may change rapidly and bacteria have to acclimate and adapt in order to survive. Rhizobia …

Essential gene acquisition destabilizes plasmid inheritance

T Wein, Y Wang, M Barz, FT Stücker… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Extra-chromosomal genetic elements are important drivers of evolutionary transformations
and ecological adaptations in prokaryotes with their evolutionary success often depending …

The time course of the transcriptomic response of Sinorhizobium meliloti1021 following a shift to acidic pH

C Hellweg, A Pühler, S Weidner - BMC microbiology, 2009 - Springer
Background The symbiotic soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti often has to face low pH in
its natural habitats. To identify genes responding to pH stress a global transcriptional …