Nitrogen regulation in Corynebacterium glutamicum: Isolation of genes involved and biochemical characterization of corresponding proteins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 303-310

  Jakoby, Marc ^a   Krämer, Reinhard ^a   Burkovski, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinomycete; Gram positive bacterium; Mycobacterium; Nitrogen control

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PROTEIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; ORNITHINE; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SARCOSINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0345129980     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00085-3     Document Type: Article

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