Nitric oxide reductase (norB) genes from pure cultures and environmental samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3476-3483

  Braker, Gesche ^a,b   Tiedje, James M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b M P Inst Terrestrial Microbiol   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELL CULTURE; CLONING; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYMES; GENES;

DENITRIFYING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID; CYTOCHROME C; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE;

ENZYME; GENETIC MARKER; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIC OXIDE;

ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HALOMONAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEDIMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; HALOMONAS; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0037978972     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3476-3483.2003     Document Type: Article

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