Nickel availability and hupSL activation by heterologous regulators limit symbiotic expression of the Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae hydrogenase system in Hup- rhizobia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 937-942

  Brito, BeléN ^a   Monza, Jorge ^a,c   Imperial, Juan ^a,b   Ruiz Argüeso, Tomás ^a   Palacios, Jose Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; NICKEL; NITROGEN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0034053459     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.3.937-942.2000     Document Type: Article

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