A membrane-bound nitrate reductase encoded by the narGHJI operon is responsible for anaerobic respiration in Halomonas maura

Extremophiles

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 411-419

  Argandoña, Montserrat ^a   Martínez Checa, Fernando ^a   Llamas, Inmaculada ^a   Arco, Yolanda ^a   Quesada, Emilia ^a   Del Moral, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Halomonas; Halophilic bacteria; Nar genes; Nitrate reductase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME MAP; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HALOMONAS; MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HALOMONAS; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; OPERON; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALOMONAS; HALOMONAS MAURA;

EID: 33749840032     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0515-2     Document Type: Article

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