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  • Title: Changes in the outer cell wall of Rhizobium during development of root nodule symbiosis in soybean.
    Author: Bal AK, Shantharam S, Verma DP.
    Journal: Can J Microbiol; 1980 Sep; 26(9):1096-103. PubMed ID: 7193073.
    Abstract:
    Treatment of soybean root nodule tissue with a nonionic detergent. Nonidet P-40, after aldehyde fixation, results in a selective solubilization of membranes. The cell wall membrane of bacteroids and of free-living Rhizobium is resistant to this treatment. Fragments of "extra" membrane present inside the membrane envelope enclosing the bacteroids are also resistant to the detergent and are morphologically similar to the outer membrane of the cell wall of Rhizobium grown in broth culture. These observations, along with electrophoretic profiles of detergent resistant membranes from nodules, free-living Rhizobium, and isolated nodule bacteroids, suggest that the Rhizobium cell wall membrane undergoes significant changes during establishment of the root nodule symbiosis.
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