Pathways of inorganic nitrogen assimilation in chemoautotrophic bacteria-marine invertebrate symbioses: Expression of host and symbiont glutamine synthetase

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-300

  Lee, Raymond W ^a,b   Robinson, Jonathan J ^a   Cavanaugh, Colleen M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid metabolism; Chemoautotrophy; Glutamate dehydrogenase; Glutamine synthetase; Hydrothermal vent; Nitrate reductase; Nitrogen assimilation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT SITE; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; OXIDATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SYMBIOSIS;

BATHYMODIOLUS THERMOPHILUS; CALYPTOGENA MAGNIFICA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; SOLEMYA VELUM; TEVNIA JERICHONANA;

EID: 0033009133     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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