Two operons that encode FNR-like proteins in Lactococcus lactis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1523-1535

  Gostick, Dominic O ^a   Griffin, Hugh G ^b   Shearman, Claire A ^b   Scott, Colin ^a   Green, Jeffrey ^a   Gasson, Michael J ^b   Guest, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; DISULFIDE; DITHIOL DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032984161     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01298.x     Document Type: Article

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