Structural and functional analyses of photosynthetic regulatory genes regA and regB from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, Roseobacter denitrificans, and Rhodobacter capsulatus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 4205-4215

  Masuda, Shinji ^a   Matsumoto, Yumi ^a   Nagashima, Kenji V P ^a   Shimada, Keizo ^a   Inoue, Kazuhito ^b   Bauer, Carl E ^c   Matsuura, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PIGMENT;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REGULON; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; RHODOVULUM SULFIDOPHILUM; ROSEOBACTER DENITRIFICANS;

EID: 0032814544     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.14.4205-4215.1999     Document Type: Article

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