The control of Azorhizobium caulinodans nifA expression by oxygen, ammonia and by the HF-I-like protein, NrfA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 603-613

  Kaminski, P Alexandre ^a   Elmerich, Claudine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; METHIONINE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031979601     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00823.x     Document Type: Article

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