Multiple transcription factors of the FNR family in denitrifying Pseudomonas stutzeri: Characterization of four fnr-like genes, regulatory responses and cognate metabolic processes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1681-1694

  Vollack, Kai Uwe ^a   Härtig, Elisabeth ^a   Körner, Heinz ^a   Zumft, Walter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPROPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C PEROXIDASE; FERREDOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI;

EID: 0033060309     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01302.x     Document Type: Article

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