
TY  - JOUR
A1  - L Skotnicki, Mary 
A1  - G Rolfe, Barry 
T1  - Bacterial and Bacteroid Properties of Mutants of Rhizobium Trifolii Strain T1 Uncoupled in Oxidative Phosphorylation
JF  - Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
JO  - Aust. Jnl. Of Bio. Sci.
Y1  - 1979
VL  - 32
IS  - 5
SP  - 501
EP  - 518
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9790501 
N2  - Using the neomycin-resistance selection technique, mutants uncoupled in oxidative phosphorylation were isolated in R. tri/olii strain Tl. These mutants had no detectable ATP-synthesizing activity and between 8 and 20% of the ATP-degrading activity of their parent strain in the bacterial form. The mutants formed nitrogen-fixing nodules on red, white, and subterranean clovers, and bacteroids isolated from white clover nodules had a high level of ATPase activity of about 70% of that found in bacteroids of their parental strain. The possibility that a new ATPase complex is synthesized when the bacteria differentiate to form bacteroids within the nodule is discussed. 
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