Genetic identification of three ABC transporters as essential elements for nitrate respiration in Haloferax volcanii

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1417-1428

  Wanner, Christian ^a   Soppa, Jörg ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; NITRATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIONS; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ARGININE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BINDING SITES; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSE; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATES; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOFERAX VOLCANII; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0345151823     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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