Cloning, sequencing and transcriptional regulation of the draT and draG genes of Azospirillum lipoferum FS

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 101-106

  Inoue, Akio ^a   Shigematsu, Toru ^a   Hidaka, Makoto ^a   Masaki, Haruhiko ^a   Uozumi, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADP ribosylation; Klebsiella oxytoca; lacZ reporter gene; Nitrogen fixation; Oxygen regulation; Posttranslational regulation; Rice

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

EID: 0029877819     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00852-7     Document Type: Article

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