Isolation and characterization of two new negative regulatory mutants for nitrate assimilation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii obtained by insertional mutagenesis

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 461-471

  Prieto, Rafael ^a   Dubus, Alain ^a   Galván, Aurora ^a   Fernández, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chlorate toxicity; Nitrate assimilation; Regulatory genes

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARGININOSUCCINATE LYASE; CARBON 14; CHLORATE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MARKER GENE; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLISM; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; XANTHINE; XANTHINES;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 0030056793     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050190     Document Type: Article

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