A gene encoding a membrane protein exists upstream of the amoA/amoB genes in ammonia oxidizing bacteria: A third member of the amo operon?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-73

  Klotz, Martin G ^a   Alzerreca, Javier ^b   Norton, Jeanette M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ammonia monooxygenase; amoC; DNA sequence; membrane protein; nitrification; Nitrosomonas; Nitrosospira

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031007617     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00098-0     Document Type: Article

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