A thermophilic nitrate reductase is responsible for the strain specific anaerobic growth of Thermus thermophilus HB8

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1396, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 215-227

  Ramírez Arcos, Sandra ^a   Fernández Herrero, Luis Angel ^a   Berenguer, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

(Thermus); Nitrate reductase; Thermophilic

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLI BACILLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; THIOCYSTIS; THIOSPHAERA PANTOTHROPHA;

EID: 0032498845     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(97)00183-8     Document Type: Article

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