Role of GOGAT in carbon and nitrogen partitioning in Rhizobium etli

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1627-1637

  Castillo, Adriana ^a   Taboada, Hermenegildo ^a   Mendoza, Alberto ^a   Valderrama, Brenda ^a,b   Encarnación, Sergio ^a   Mora, Jaime ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Carbon metabolism; Glutamate auxotroph; Glutamine turnover; Nitrogen assimilation; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITROGEN; SUCCINIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; STRUCTURAL GENE;

RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 0033925721     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-7-1627     Document Type: Article

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