Identification and characterization of SnrA, an inducible oxygen-insensitive nitroreductase in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium TA1535

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 508, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 59-70

  Nokhbeh, M R ^a   Boroumandi, S ^a   Pokorny, N ^a   Koziarz, P ^a   Paterson, E S ^a   Lambert, I B ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

FMN oxidoreductase; NfsA; Nitroreductase; Salmonella; SoxRS regulon

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; GENE PRODUCT; NITROREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PARAQUAT; PROTEIN SNRA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DAMAGE; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTAGEN TESTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; REGULON; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLAVIN MONONUCLEOTIDE; FMN REDUCTASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; NADP; NITROREDUCTASES; PARAQUAT; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0037206601     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(02)00174-4     Document Type: Article

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