Identification of alanine dehydrogenase and its role in mixed secretion of ammonium and alanine by pea bacteroids

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 508-515

  Allaway, D ^a   Lodwig, E M ^a   Crompton, L A ^a   Wood, M ^a   Parsons, R ^b   Wheeler, T R ^a   Poole, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE DEHYDROGENASE; AMMONIA; NITROGEN 15;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMASS; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEA; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM;

ALANINE; ALANINE DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEAS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCINE MAX; NEGIBACTERIA; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0034014611     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01884.x     Document Type: Article

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