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==Classification==
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''Agrobacterium radiobacter''
''Agrobacterium radiobacter''
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==Description and significance==
==Description and significance==
Agrobacterium radiobacter is a gram negative bacillus found in soil containing organic material (rhizosphere). It is a saprophytic organism, meaning it uses dead plant material for nutrients.(1) A. radiobacter strain k84 is utilized for its competitive behavior with the closely related A. tumefaciens; the cause of crown gall disease in plants. A. radiobacter synthesizes and secretes a substance called agrocin 84, which blocks the ability of A tumefaciens to replicate its DNA, effectively halting its ability to reproduce.(2) The strain A. radiobacter J14 is useful in its ability to degrade Atrazine, an agricultural herbicide.(4)
[[File:Aradiobacterbloodagar.jpg|thumb| An isolation streak of <i>A. radiobacter</i> on blood horse agar. The bacteria was isolated from the vitreous humour of the right eye of a patient with endophthalmitis. Photo property of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanreading/8468059793/ Nathan Reading] and used solely for educational purposes.]]


It has been recognized as an opportunistic pathogen in humans, though is of relatively low virulence.(1) The bacteria’s presence in humans is thought to be nosocomial, meaning hospital-aquired. Cases of Agrobacterium infection occurred most frequently in conjunction with the presence of a catheter or lens implant. A. radiobacter has also been the cause of one case of psuedobacteremia, in which 15 blood samples were contaminated with water inhabited by A. radiobacter, further implicating that the bacteria is transmitted from the hospital to the host.(10)
<i>Agrobacterium radiobacter</i> is a gram negative bacillus found in soil containing organic material (rhizosphere). It is a saprophytic organism, meaning it uses dead plant material for nutrients.(1) <i>A. radiobacter</i> strain k84 is utilized for its competitive behavior with the closely related <i>A. tumefaciens</i>; the cause of crown gall disease in plants. <i>A. radiobacter</i> synthesizes and secretes a substance called agrocin 84, which blocks the ability of <i>A tumefaciens</i> to replicate its DNA, effectively halting its ability to reproduce.(2) The strain <i>A. radiobacter</i> J14 is useful in its ability to degrade Atrazine, an agricultural herbicide.(4)
 
It has been recognized as an opportunistic pathogen in humans, though is of relatively low virulence.(1) The bacteria’s presence in humans is thought to be nosocomial, meaning hospital-acquired. Cases of <i>Agrobacterium</i> infection occurred most frequently in conjunction with the presence of a catheter or lens implant. <i>A. radiobacter</i> has also been the cause of one case of psuedobacteremia, in which 15 blood samples were contaminated with water inhabited by <i>A. radiobacter</i>, further implicating that the bacteria is transmitted from the hospital to humans.(10)


==Genome structure==
==Genome structure==
The genome of A. radiobacter has been completely sequenced via the shotgun sequencing method. It contains 7.2 million base pairs with a G+C composition of 59.9%.(12) The genetic material is organized within one circular chromosome containing 4,005,130 base pairs, as well as four plasmids.   
The genome of <i>A. radiobacter</i> has been completely sequenced via the shotgun sequencing method. It contains 7.2 million base pairs with a G+C composition of 59.9%.(11) The genetic material is organized within one circular chromosome containing 4,005,130 base pairs, as well as four plasmids.   


The five species of Agrobacterium are divided based on their pathogenicity towards plants. A. radiobacter is distinguished by being the only member of the genus that does not have pathogenic tendencies towards plants. This is a problematic method of categorization because the plasmids responsible for pathogenicity are easily transferrable amongst members of the genus.(8) An alternative classification system divides Agrobacterium into three biovarients based on the organization of their genetic material. Biovar I contains two chromosomes and two plasmids. Biovar III contain two chromosomes and five plasmids. Biovar II, to which A. radiobacter belongs, contains only one chromosome and four plasmids.(8)  
The five species of <i>Agrobacterium</i> are divided based on their pathogenicity towards plants. <i>A. radiobacter</i> is distinguished by being the only member of the genus that does not have pathogenic tendencies towards plants. This is a problematic method of categorization because the plasmids responsible for pathogenicity are easily transferrable amongst members of the genus.(8) An alternative classification system divides <i>Agrobacterium</i> into three biovariants based on the organization of their genetic material. Biovar I contains two chromosomes and two plasmids. Biovar III contain two chromosomes and five plasmids. Biovar II, to which <i>A. radiobacter</i> belongs, contains only one chromosome and four plasmids.(8)  


The largest of A. radiobacter’s plasmids contains 2,650,913 base pairs; more than 33% of the organism’s total genetic material and more than the either of the other bivarient’s second chromosomes. However, because it does not contain genes that code for vital metabolic functions, it is still classified as a plasmid. It does share a significant number of genes with the other biovarients that are important, if not vital, to cell function. To distinguish its significance, the large plasmid is commonly referred to as a replicon. The replicon is known to contain at least one gene essential to cell survival. (8)
The largest of <i>A. radiobacter’s</i> plasmids contains 2,650,913 base pairs; more than 33% of the organism’s total genetic material and more than the either of the other bivariant’s second chromosomes. However, because it does not contain genes that code for vital metabolic functions, it is still classified as a plasmid. It does share a significant number of genes with the other biovarients that are important, if not vital, to cell function. To distinguish its significance, the large plasmid is commonly referred to as a replicon. The replicon is known to contain at least one gene essential to cell survival. (8)


==Cell and colony structure==
==Cell and colony structure==
Rahnella aquatilis is gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium, about 2-3 microns in length.  Strain ISL 19 was isolated from soybean rhizosphere, and was seen to have several flagella for motility [6]. The bacterium can be readily cultured in the laboratory.  
<i>A. radiobacter</i> was first isolated from soil in Australia (5). It is a rod-shaped, gram-negative organism that senses nutrients through chemotaxis, and moves towards them propelled by use of peritrichous flagella. <i>A. radiobacter</i> forms organized biofilms in the tree roots it colonizes by secreting a sticky polysaccharide cell envelope.(9) In lab strains, it forms round colonies.  


==Metabolism==
==Metabolism==
Rahnella aquatilis is a facultative anaerobe (it can live in the absence or presence of oxygen) that fixes Nitrogen [2]. R. aquatilis metabolizing whey lactose produces high levels of organic acids (except for lactic acid) [7].     
<i>A. radiobacter</i> is a facultative aerobic heterotroph that is unable to carry out fermentation. The organism uses dead plant material in the rhizosphere, a distinct habitat influenced by the root systems of plants, as both its carbon and energy source. It has been lab cultured using glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, glycerol, glutamate and succinate as the sole source of carbon and energy. Under anaerobic conditions the organism is able to use nitrate as a terminal electron acceptor.
 
During oxidative respiration, <i>A. radiobacter</i> stores energy in the form of polyglucose molecules in microcompartments. They are not synthesized during anaerobic respiration which demonstrates the organism’s increased efficiency while using oxygen as its terminal electron acceptor. The polyglucose molecules can be used in a variety of biosynthetic pathways, including the reduction of chromate. This is a useful process because chromate is toxic to most organisms. (6)  
     


==Ecology==
==Ecology==
Rahnella aquatilis is named so because of its prevalence in fresh water. It has been found around the globe in places like the United States, Korea, Japan, Russia, the Ukraine, and Egypt.  R. aquatilis has also been found in humans, soil,  and snails [5]. One of the most unusual places for the the microbe to have been found was inside the gut of certain speicies of longicorn beetles in Korea [4].
[[File:Agrobacterium tumefaciens Forsythie.jpg|thumb|A forsythia infected with crown gall disease. By C-M (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons]]
 
<i>A. radiobacter</i> K84 is used to control two other members of its genus: <i>A. tumefaciens</i> and <i>A. rhizogenes</i>. The two organisms cause the diseases crown gall and hairy roots among many agriculturally useful plant species. The diseases involve a transfer of DNA called T-DNA into a host plant. The plant’s DNA is altered so that it synthesizes carbon compounds called opines that are then metabolized by the pathogenic bacteria. Bacteria were genetically engineering their food long before humans, and the mechanism by which pathogenic <i>Agrobacterium</i> transfer their DNA to plants has been copied for use in genetic engineering of crops. (4)
 
<i>A. radiobacter</i> K84 contains a plasmid (pAgk84) that codes for the synthesis of agrocin; an analogous molecule to the opines produced by infected plants.(5) Agrocin blocks the synthesis of enzyme T-RNA synthetase (LeuRS) which is vital to protein manufacturing and thus cell viability. As a biocontrol, agrocin is particularly effective because the genetic material that codes for the production of pathogenic T-DNA in <i>A. tumefaciens</i> and <i>A. rhizogenes</i> also codes for the production of the transfer proteins that import opines, meaning that the species that cause the disease are targeted specifically and effectively. (2,5)




==Pathology==
==Pathology==
Rahnella aquatilis is pathogenic in humans. The organism can be diagnosed in patients via blood cultures, respiratory washings, and in wound cultures. Various infections, such as bacteremia (from renal infection), sepsis, respiratory infection, and urinary tract infection can be the result.  One case involved an 11-month-old girl with congenital heart disease who developed infective endocarditis [8]. Another case involved a 76-year-old male who had prostatic hyperplasia presenting with acute pyelonephritis [9]. It is noted that R. aquatilis can potentially cause life-threatening infections in humans, infants and adults alike, especially the immunocompromised and organ transplant recipients. Treatments have included intravenous and oral levofloxacin therapy (and other members of the quinolone family).
Though <i>A. radiobacter</i> is classified by its benevolent relationship with plants, it has recently been recognized as an opportunistic pathogen among humans. Cases of <i>A. radiobacter</i> infection have been discovered in people with compromised immune systems (cancer or HIV patients) suggesting it is of low virulence. It is susceptible to a number of antibiotics including third-generation cephalosporins, beta-lactams, carbapenems, amikacin, ciprofloxacin, meropenem, and co-trimoxazole.(1) Infection most frequently accompanies the presence of foreign material such as a catheter or lens implant indicating that that bacteria’s introduction to the body is nosocomial. More evidence that <i>A. radiobacter</i> infection is hospital-acquired comes from at least one known case of pseudobacteremia. Pseudobacteremia is a false positive based on bacterial contamination of a sample.(10)
 
==References==
1 – M. Detrait, L. D’Hondt, M. André, C. Lonchay, X. Holemans, J.P. Maton, J.L. Canon, Agrobacterium radiobacter bacteremia in oncologic and geriatric patients: presentation of two cases and review of the literature, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages e7-e10, ISSN 1201-9712,
 
2 – Thompson, Hamilton, Pootjes. Purification and Isolation of Agrocin 84. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1979 September; 16(3): 293–296. Online at US library of Medicine National Institute of Health. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC352848/.
 
3 –Giammanco, Giovanni et al. Molecular Typing of Agrobacterium Species Isolates From Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 25, No. 10 (October 2004), pp. 885-
887. Online at Jstor. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/502315. 1.12.13.
 
4 – Vivader, Ann K Lambrecth, Patricia A. Bacteria as Plant Pathogens. The Plant Health Instructor. 2004. Accesed online 1.13.13. http://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/pathogengroups/pages/bacteria.aspx.


5 – Kim, Junk-Gun et al. Bases of biocontrol: Sequence predicts synthesis and mode of action of agocin 84, the Trojan Horse antibiotic that controls crown gall. Proc Nat Aca Sci U.S.A. 2006 June 6; 103(23): 8846-8851. Published online 2006 May 26.  doi: http://www.pnas.org/content/103/23/8846.


==References==
6 – Llovera, Santiago, Bonet, Ramon, Simon-Pujol, Maria D, Congregado, Francisco. Chromate reduction by resting cells of Agrobacterium radiobacter. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 59, No. 10. 1993 October. 3516-3519. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC182488/pdf/aem00039-0360.pdf
[1] J Chemother. 2000 Feb;12(1):30-9. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10768513>
 
7 -  Reader JS, Ordoukhanian PT, Kim JG, de Crecy-Lagard V, Hwang, I, Farrand S, Scimmel P. Major biocontrol of plant tumors targets tRNA synthetase. Science. 2005 Sep 2; 309(5740):1533. Erratum i: Science. 2005 Oct 7;310(5745):54. Pubmed PMID: 16141066.
[2] R.J. Martinez. J Bacteriol. 2012 Apr;194(8):2113-4. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=Rahnella%20aquatilis>
[3] Robert Martinez, University of Alabama. <http://genome.jgi-psf.org/rahac/rahac.info.html>
 
[4] Park, Doo-Sang, Hyun-Woo Oh, Won-Jin Jeong, et al. "A Culture-Based Study of the Bacterial Communities within the Guts
of Nine Longicorn Beetle Species and their Exo-enzyme Producing Properties
for Degrading Xylan and Pectin." The Journal of Microbiology, October 2007, p. 394-401.  


[5] Brenner, Don J., Hans E. Muller, Arnold G. Steigerwalt, et al. "Two new Rahnella genomospecies that cannot
8 – Slater, Steven C. et al. Genome Sequences of Three Agrobacterium Biovars Help Elucidate the Evolution of Multichromosome Genomes in Bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology. April 2009. 2501-2511. Published online 2009, February 27. doi:  10.1128/JB.01779-08.  
be phenotypically differentiated from Rahnella aquatilis." lnternstional Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1 998), 48, 141 -149.


[6] Kim, Kil Yong, Diann Jordan, and Hari B. Krishnan. "Rahnella aquatilis, a bacterium isolated from soybean rhizosphere, can solubilize hydroxyapatite." FEMS Microbiology Letters Volume 153, Issue 2, 15 August 1997, Pages 273–277.
9 – Abarca-Grau, Ana M. et al. Role for Rhizobium rhizogenes K84 Cell Envelope Polysaccharides in Surface Interactions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. March 2012 vol. 78 no. 6 1644-1651. http://aem.asm.org/content/78/6/1644.full.


[7] Pintado, Manuela E., Ana I.E. Pintado, and F. Xavier Malcata. "Fate of Nitrogen During Metabolism of Whey Lactose by Rahnella aquatilis." Journal of Dairy Science, Volume 82, Issue 11, November 1999, Pages 2315-2326.
10 – Rogues, Anne-Marie et al. Agrobacterium radiobacter as a cause of Pseudobacteremia. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 1999 May. Vol. 20, No. 5. 345-347. Accessed online on JSTOR.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/501630.


[8] Matsukura H., Katayama K., Kitano N., et al. "Infective endocarditis caused by an unusual gram-negative rod, Rahnella aquatilis." Pediatric Cardiology, 1996 Mar-Apr; 17(2): 108-11.
11 – Caspi R, Altman T et al. [http://www.metacyc.org/organism-summary?object=ARAD311403 The MetaCyc Database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/Genome Databases.] 2012. Nucleic Acids Research 40(Database issue):D742-D753. PMID: 22102576


[9] Tash, Kaley. "Rahnella aquatilis Bacteremia from a Suspected Urinary Source." Journal of Clinical Microbiology. May 2005, vol. 43 no. 5, 2526-2528.





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A Microbial Biorealm page on the Agrobacterium radiobacter

Classification

Higher order taxa

Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rhizobiales; Rhizobiaceae; Rhizobium/Agrobacterium group

Species

Agrobacterium radiobacter

NCBI

Description and significance

An isolation streak of A. radiobacter on blood horse agar. The bacteria was isolated from the vitreous humour of the right eye of a patient with endophthalmitis. Photo property of Nathan Reading and used solely for educational purposes.

Agrobacterium radiobacter is a gram negative bacillus found in soil containing organic material (rhizosphere). It is a saprophytic organism, meaning it uses dead plant material for nutrients.(1) A. radiobacter strain k84 is utilized for its competitive behavior with the closely related A. tumefaciens; the cause of crown gall disease in plants. A. radiobacter synthesizes and secretes a substance called agrocin 84, which blocks the ability of A tumefaciens to replicate its DNA, effectively halting its ability to reproduce.(2) The strain A. radiobacter J14 is useful in its ability to degrade Atrazine, an agricultural herbicide.(4)

It has been recognized as an opportunistic pathogen in humans, though is of relatively low virulence.(1) The bacteria’s presence in humans is thought to be nosocomial, meaning hospital-acquired. Cases of Agrobacterium infection occurred most frequently in conjunction with the presence of a catheter or lens implant. A. radiobacter has also been the cause of one case of psuedobacteremia, in which 15 blood samples were contaminated with water inhabited by A. radiobacter, further implicating that the bacteria is transmitted from the hospital to humans.(10)

Genome structure

The genome of A. radiobacter has been completely sequenced via the shotgun sequencing method. It contains 7.2 million base pairs with a G+C composition of 59.9%.(11) The genetic material is organized within one circular chromosome containing 4,005,130 base pairs, as well as four plasmids.

The five species of Agrobacterium are divided based on their pathogenicity towards plants. A. radiobacter is distinguished by being the only member of the genus that does not have pathogenic tendencies towards plants. This is a problematic method of categorization because the plasmids responsible for pathogenicity are easily transferrable amongst members of the genus.(8) An alternative classification system divides Agrobacterium into three biovariants based on the organization of their genetic material. Biovar I contains two chromosomes and two plasmids. Biovar III contain two chromosomes and five plasmids. Biovar II, to which A. radiobacter belongs, contains only one chromosome and four plasmids.(8)

The largest of A. radiobacter’s plasmids contains 2,650,913 base pairs; more than 33% of the organism’s total genetic material and more than the either of the other bivariant’s second chromosomes. However, because it does not contain genes that code for vital metabolic functions, it is still classified as a plasmid. It does share a significant number of genes with the other biovarients that are important, if not vital, to cell function. To distinguish its significance, the large plasmid is commonly referred to as a replicon. The replicon is known to contain at least one gene essential to cell survival. (8)

Cell and colony structure

A. radiobacter was first isolated from soil in Australia (5). It is a rod-shaped, gram-negative organism that senses nutrients through chemotaxis, and moves towards them propelled by use of peritrichous flagella. A. radiobacter forms organized biofilms in the tree roots it colonizes by secreting a sticky polysaccharide cell envelope.(9) In lab strains, it forms round colonies.

Metabolism

A. radiobacter is a facultative aerobic heterotroph that is unable to carry out fermentation. The organism uses dead plant material in the rhizosphere, a distinct habitat influenced by the root systems of plants, as both its carbon and energy source. It has been lab cultured using glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, glycerol, glutamate and succinate as the sole source of carbon and energy. Under anaerobic conditions the organism is able to use nitrate as a terminal electron acceptor.

During oxidative respiration, A. radiobacter stores energy in the form of polyglucose molecules in microcompartments. They are not synthesized during anaerobic respiration which demonstrates the organism’s increased efficiency while using oxygen as its terminal electron acceptor. The polyglucose molecules can be used in a variety of biosynthetic pathways, including the reduction of chromate. This is a useful process because chromate is toxic to most organisms. (6)


Ecology

A forsythia infected with crown gall disease. By C-M (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

A. radiobacter K84 is used to control two other members of its genus: A. tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes. The two organisms cause the diseases crown gall and hairy roots among many agriculturally useful plant species. The diseases involve a transfer of DNA called T-DNA into a host plant. The plant’s DNA is altered so that it synthesizes carbon compounds called opines that are then metabolized by the pathogenic bacteria. Bacteria were genetically engineering their food long before humans, and the mechanism by which pathogenic Agrobacterium transfer their DNA to plants has been copied for use in genetic engineering of crops. (4)

A. radiobacter K84 contains a plasmid (pAgk84) that codes for the synthesis of agrocin; an analogous molecule to the opines produced by infected plants.(5) Agrocin blocks the synthesis of enzyme T-RNA synthetase (LeuRS) which is vital to protein manufacturing and thus cell viability. As a biocontrol, agrocin is particularly effective because the genetic material that codes for the production of pathogenic T-DNA in A. tumefaciens and A. rhizogenes also codes for the production of the transfer proteins that import opines, meaning that the species that cause the disease are targeted specifically and effectively. (2,5)


Pathology

Though A. radiobacter is classified by its benevolent relationship with plants, it has recently been recognized as an opportunistic pathogen among humans. Cases of A. radiobacter infection have been discovered in people with compromised immune systems (cancer or HIV patients) suggesting it is of low virulence. It is susceptible to a number of antibiotics including third-generation cephalosporins, beta-lactams, carbapenems, amikacin, ciprofloxacin, meropenem, and co-trimoxazole.(1) Infection most frequently accompanies the presence of foreign material such as a catheter or lens implant indicating that that bacteria’s introduction to the body is nosocomial. More evidence that A. radiobacter infection is hospital-acquired comes from at least one known case of pseudobacteremia. Pseudobacteremia is a false positive based on bacterial contamination of a sample.(10)

References

1 – M. Detrait, L. D’Hondt, M. André, C. Lonchay, X. Holemans, J.P. Maton, J.L. Canon, Agrobacterium radiobacter bacteremia in oncologic and geriatric patients: presentation of two cases and review of the literature, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 12, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages e7-e10, ISSN 1201-9712,

2 – Thompson, Hamilton, Pootjes. Purification and Isolation of Agrocin 84. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1979 September; 16(3): 293–296. Online at US library of Medicine National Institute of Health. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC352848/.

3 –Giammanco, Giovanni et al. Molecular Typing of Agrobacterium Species Isolates From Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 25, No. 10 (October 2004), pp. 885- 887. Online at Jstor. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/502315. 1.12.13.

4 – Vivader, Ann K Lambrecth, Patricia A. Bacteria as Plant Pathogens. The Plant Health Instructor. 2004. Accesed online 1.13.13. http://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/intropp/pathogengroups/pages/bacteria.aspx.

5 – Kim, Junk-Gun et al. Bases of biocontrol: Sequence predicts synthesis and mode of action of agocin 84, the Trojan Horse antibiotic that controls crown gall. Proc Nat Aca Sci U.S.A. 2006 June 6; 103(23): 8846-8851. Published online 2006 May 26. doi: http://www.pnas.org/content/103/23/8846.

6 – Llovera, Santiago, Bonet, Ramon, Simon-Pujol, Maria D, Congregado, Francisco. Chromate reduction by resting cells of Agrobacterium radiobacter. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 59, No. 10. 1993 October. 3516-3519. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC182488/pdf/aem00039-0360.pdf

7 - Reader JS, Ordoukhanian PT, Kim JG, de Crecy-Lagard V, Hwang, I, Farrand S, Scimmel P. Major biocontrol of plant tumors targets tRNA synthetase. Science. 2005 Sep 2; 309(5740):1533. Erratum i: Science. 2005 Oct 7;310(5745):54. Pubmed PMID: 16141066.

8 – Slater, Steven C. et al. Genome Sequences of Three Agrobacterium Biovars Help Elucidate the Evolution of Multichromosome Genomes in Bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology. April 2009. 2501-2511. Published online 2009, February 27. doi: 10.1128/JB.01779-08.

9 – Abarca-Grau, Ana M. et al. Role for Rhizobium rhizogenes K84 Cell Envelope Polysaccharides in Surface Interactions. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. March 2012 vol. 78 no. 6 1644-1651. http://aem.asm.org/content/78/6/1644.full.

10 – Rogues, Anne-Marie et al. Agrobacterium radiobacter as a cause of Pseudobacteremia. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 1999 May. Vol. 20, No. 5. 345-347. Accessed online on JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/501630.

11 – Caspi R, Altman T et al. The MetaCyc Database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/Genome Databases. 2012. Nucleic Acids Research 40(Database issue):D742-D753. PMID: 22102576



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