Fur is not the global regulator of iron uptake genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1357-1365

  Wexler, M ^a   Todd, J D ^a   Kolade, O ^a   Bellini, D ^a   Hemmings, A M ^a   Sawers, G ^b   Johnston, A W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON; PROTEIN FUR; PROTEIN IRR; PROTOPORPHYRIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IRON INTAKE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PEA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEAS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PISUM SATIVUM; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0038751864     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26130-0     Document Type: Review

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