Isolation of periplasmic nitrate reductase genes from Rhodobacter sphaeroides DSM 158: Structural and functional differences among prokaryotic nitrate reductases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1307-1318

  Reyes, Francisca ^a   Roldán, M Dolores ^a   Klipp, Werner ^b   Castillo, Francisco ^a   Moreno Vivián, Conrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALCALIGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0029881191     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02475.x     Document Type: Article

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