Is the fur gene of Rhizobium leguminosarum essential?

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-295

  De Luca, Nicola G ^a   Wexler, Margaret ^a   Pereira, Maria J ^a   Yeoman, Kay H ^a   Johnston, Andrew W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fur; Gene regulation; Iron; Manganese resistance; Nitrogen fixation; Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

IRON; MANGANESE; SIDEROPHORE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0031732242     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00454-6     Document Type: Article

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