Plasmid content and localization of the genes encoding the denitrification enzymes in two strains of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 313-321

  Schwintner, Carole ^a   Sabaty, Monique ^a   Berna, Bénédicte ^a   Cahors, Sandrine ^a   Richaud, Pierre ^a  

^a IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Gene localization; Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PROBES; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLASMIDS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0032454819     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00294-8     Document Type: Article

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