Identification and characterization of a periplasmic nitrate reductase in Azospirillum brasilense Sp245

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 344-352

  Steenhoudt, Oda ^a   Keijers, Veerle ^a   Okon, Yaacov ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Azospirillum brasilense; Membrane bound nitrate reductase; NapA mutant; NapABC; Periplasmic nitrate reductase

Indexed keywords

BENZYLVIOLOGEN; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PARAQUAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASES; PERIPLASM; SPHEROPLASTS;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SP.; PSEUDOMONAS SP. G-179; RALSTONIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0035019438     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030100271     Document Type: Article

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