Novel growth characteristics and high rates of nitrate reduction of an Escherichia coli strain, LCB2048, that expresses only a periplasmic nitrate reductase

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-57

  Potter, Laura C ^a   Millington, Paul D ^a   Thomas, Gavin H ^a   Rothery, Richard A ^b   Giordano, Gérard ^c   Cole, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli nitrate reduction; Nitrate reduction; Periplasmic nitrate reductase; Tungstate

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; TUNGSTEN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROL; MOLYBDENUM; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERIPLASM; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034175841     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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