Identification and characterization of the Staphylococcus carnosus nitrate reductase operon

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-114

  Pantel, I ^a   Lindgren, P E ^a,b   Neubauer, H ^a   Gotz F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fnr; narGHJI operon; NarL; Nitrate reductase; Staphylococcus carnosus

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; OXYGEN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; OPERON; OXYGEN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS;

EID: 0031657284     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050794     Document Type: Article

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