Cytochrome c oxidase genes required for nitrogenase activity and diazotrophic growth in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1239-1249

  Valladares, Ana ^a   Herrero, Antonia ^a   Pils, Dietmar ^b   Schmetterer, Georg ^b   Flores, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; NITROGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HETR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; ISOENZYME; NITRATE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE GENE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANABAENA; ANABAENA SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; NICA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120; PROKARYOTA;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; ISOENZYMES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OPERON; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037863804     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03372.x     Document Type: Article

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