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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2001

Nucleotide sequence and predicted functions of the entire Sinorhizobium meliloti pSymA megaplasmid.

M J Barnett, R F Fisher, T Jones, C Komp, A P Abola, F Barloy-Hubler, L Bowser, D Capela, F Galibert, J Gouzy and 16 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers.

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117citing papers in PubMed
31.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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117 citing papers in PubMed, 309 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M J BarnettDepartment of Biological Sciences, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.
R F Fisher
T Jones
C Komp
A P Abola
F Barloy-Hubler
L Bowser
D Capela
F Galibert
J Gouzy
M Gurjal
A Hong
L Huizar
R W Hyman
D Kahn
M L Kahn
S Kalman
D H Keating
C Palm
M C Peck
R Surzycki
D H Wells
K C Yeh
R W Davis
N A Federspiel
S R Long
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

REGULATION OF NODULATION GENES IN RHIZOBIUM MELILOTIR37GM030962 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LONG, SHARON R · 1993 to 2002
$1.0M
RHIZOBIUM NODULATION GENE EXPRESSION AND GENE PRODUCTSR01GM030962 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LONG, SHARON R · 1985 to 1992
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM30962
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The symbiotic nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti contains three replicons: pSymA, pSymB, and the chromosome. We report here the complete 1,354,226-nt sequence of pSymA. In addition to a large fraction of the genes known to be specifically involved in symbiosis, pSymA contains genes likely to be involved in nitrogen and carbon metabolism, transport, stress, and resistance responses, and other functions that give S. meliloti an advantage in its specialized niche.

Indexed as

Agrobacterium tumefaciensAmino AcidsCalcium-Binding ProteinsCarrier ProteinsDNA, BacterialEukaryotic CellsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene LibraryGenes, BacterialMolecular Sequence DataNitrogenNitrogen FixationPhenotypePlasmidsRepliconSequence Analysis, DNAAmino AcidsCalcium-Binding ProteinsCarrier ProteinsDNA, BacterialNitrogen

Identifiers

PMID11481432
PMCPMC55547
OpenAlexW2167198186

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