Analysis of genes involved in nitrate reduction in Clostridium perfringens

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3377-3387

  Fujinaga, Katsuyo ^a   Taniguchi, Yuki ^a   Sun, Yezhou ^a   Katayama, Seiichi ^a   Minami, Junzaburo ^a   Matsushita, Osamu ^a   Okabe, Akinobu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; Ferredoxin like protein; Molybdopterin guanine dinucleotide; NADH oxidase; Nitrate reductase

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS A; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033371247     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-12-3377     Document Type: Article

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