The fixABCX Genes in Rhodospirillum rubrum Encode a Putative Membrane Complex Participating in Electron Transfer to Nitrogenase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2052-2060

  Edgren, Tomas ^a   Nordlund, Stefan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANOIC ACID; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROGENASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIXABCX GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GROWTH RATE; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METRONIDAZOLE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; RHODOSPIRILLUM; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 1642391439     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.7.2052-2060.2004     Document Type: Article

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