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Biogenesis of the peribacteroid membrane in root nodules
1Dept of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA. dverma@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Trends in Microbiology
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
An infected root nodule cell may contain several thousand rhizobial symbionts, each enclosed in a membrane envelope, the peribacteroid membrane (PBM). The PBM is derived from the host plasma membrane, but shares properties with the vacuolar membrane and contains several nodule-specific proteins (nodulins) that perform unique functions for symbiosis.