Transcriptional regulation of Nostoc uptake hydrogenase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-81

  Axelsson, Rikard ^a   Oxelfelt, Fredrik ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; hox; hup; Hydrogen uptake; RT PCR; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMMONIA; ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANABAENA VARIABILIS; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC MUSCORUM; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 0032928850     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00527-8     Document Type: Article

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