A Promoter Mutation Causes Differential Nitrate Reductase Activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2856-2861

  Stermann, Marion ^a   Sedlacek, Ludwig ^a   Maass, Silvia ^a   Bange, Franz Christoph ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUBLICATION; REDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OPERON; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 1942443182     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.9.2856-2861.2004     Document Type: Article

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