Isolation and characterization of the glnD gene of Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, encoding a putative uridylyltransferase/uridylyl-removing enzyme

Gene

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 159-168

  Perlova, Olena ^a   Nawroth, Roman ^a   Zellermann, Eva Maria ^a   Meletzus, Dietmar ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GlnD; nif gene expression; Nitrogen metabolism; UTase uridylyl removing enzyme

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; KANAMYCIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NITROGENASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AZOTOBACTER; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0037019820     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00881-8     Document Type: Article

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