Mutation of ntrC gene leading to the derepression of nitrogenase synthesis in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-61

  Zinchenko, V ^a   Babykin, M ^a   Glaser, V ^a   Mekhedov, S ^a,b   Shestakov, S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

nitrogen fixation; nitrogenase regulation; ntrB; ntrC; Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; METHYLAMINES; MUTATION; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0031049471     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00504-6     Document Type: Article

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