The blue copper-containing nitrite reductase from Alcaligenes xylosoxidans: Cloning of the nirA gene and characterization of the recombinant enzyme

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2323-2329

  Prudêncio, Miguel ^a,b   Eady, Robert R ^a   Sawers, Gary ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ALCALIGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES; ALCALIGENES XYLOSOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0344573109     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.8.2323-2329.1999     Document Type: Article

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