Nucleotide sequence and genetic analysis of the region essential for functional expression of the gene for ferredoxin i, fdxn, in rhodobacter capsulatus: Sharing of one upstream activator sequence in opposite directions by two operons related to nitrogen fixation

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 185-199

  Saeki, Kazuhiko ^a   Tokuda, Ken Ichiro ^a   Fujiwara, Takeshi ^a   Matsubara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interposon mutagenesis; LacZ fusion; NifA binding site; Nitrogen fixation; Rhodobacter capsulatus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FERREDOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS CAPSULATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERREDOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

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