Coordinate synthesis of azurin I and copper nitrite reductase in Alcaligenes xylosoxidans during denitrification

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 241-249

  Harris, Roger L ^a   Eady, Robert R ^a,b   Samar Hasnain, S ^b   Gary Sawers, R ^a,c  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azurin; Denitrification; Electron transfer; Gene regulation; Nitrite reductase

Indexed keywords

AZURIN; AZURIN 2; AZURIN I; COPPER; GENE PRODUCT; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ARTICLE; AZUA GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CISTRON; CYTOPLASM; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NIRK GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33747642344     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-006-0139-z     Document Type: Article

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