Cross-talk towards the response regulator NtrC controlling nitrogen metabolism in Rhodobacter capsulatus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 250-256

  Drepper, Thomas ^a   Wiethaus, Jessica ^b   Giaourakis, Daphne ^b   Groß, Silke ^b   Schubert, Britta ^b   Vogt, Markus ^b   Wiencek, Yvonne ^b   McEwan, Alastair G ^c   Masepohl, Bernd ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nitrogenase; NtrB; NtrC; Rhodobacter capsulatus; Two component regulatory system; Urease

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE KINASE NTRB; HISTIDINE KINASE NTRY; NITROGEN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN NTRB; PROTEIN NTRC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NIFR3 GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NTRB GENE; NTRC GENE; NTRX GENE; NTRY GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASES; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UREA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 33646236072     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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