Ammonium repression of the nitrite-nitrate (nasAB) assimilatory operon of Azotobacter vinelandii is enhanced in mutants expressing the nifO gene at high levels

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 172-179

  Gutierrez, J C ^a,b   Santero, E ^a   Tortolero, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b DYTRAS SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chlorate resistant mutants; nasAB; nifO; Nitrogen fixation mutants

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; GENE MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLORATES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITROGEN; OPERON; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030745507     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050486     Document Type: Article

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