Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of a gene (narT) encoding a transport protein involved in dissimilatory nitrate reduction in Staphylococcus carnosus

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 361-367

  Fast, Beate ^a,b   Lindgren, Per Eric ^a,c   Götz, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

nitrate uptake; nitrite export; Staphylococcus carnosus; Tn917 insertion mutant

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; NITRATE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITES; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS;

EID: 0030463084     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050396     Document Type: Article

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