Bacterial nitric oxide synthesis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics

Volumn 1411, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 231-249

  Cutruzzolà, Francesca ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Copper; Cytochrome cd1; Denitrification; Nitric oxide dependent gene regulation; Nitrite reductase

Indexed keywords

HEME; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

BACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NOCARDIA; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA; CATALYSIS; CYTOCHROMES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NOCARDIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032923887     PISSN: 00052728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2728(99)00017-1     Document Type: Review

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