Effect of nitrogen oxides on expression of the nir and nor genes for denitrification in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-24

  Arai, Hiroyuki ^a   Kodama, Tohru ^b   Igarashi, Yasuo ^c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Nitric oxide reductase; Nitrite reductase; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Regulation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032952078     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00517-5     Document Type: Article

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