A hydrogen-sensing system in transcriptional regulation of hydrogenase gene expression in Alcaligenes species

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1655-1663

  Lenz, Oliver ^a   Strack, Angelika ^a   Tran Betcke, Andrea ^b   Friedrich, Bärbel ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES HYDROGENOPHILUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; HYDROGENOPHILUS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0031046042     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.5.1655-1663.1997     Document Type: Article

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