Physiological characterisation of an Azotobacter vinelandii nifU-deletion mutant and its spontaneous Nif+ revertants that over-produce cytochrome bd

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-191

  Hill, Susan ^a   He, Luhong ^b,c   Kennedy, Christina ^b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Azotobacter vinelandii; Cytochrome bd; NifU revertant; Nitrogenase biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; DELETION MUTANT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII;

EID: 0032796161     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00191-3     Document Type: Article

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