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Glutamine synthetase isoforms in nitrogen-fixing soybean nodules: distinct oligomeric structures and thiol-based

Pintu D Masalkar1, Daniel M Roberts2

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States.

FEBS Letters
|December 16, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Analytical ultracentrifugationDisulfide bondGlutamine synthetaseNitrogen assimilationSymbiosis

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