Selenite-reducing capacity of the copper-containing nitrite reductase of Rhizobium sullae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 124-130

  Basaglia, Marina ^a   Toffanin, Annita ^b   Baldan, Enrico ^a   Bottegal, Mariangela ^a   Shapleigh, James P ^c   Casella, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrite reductase; Rhizobium sullae; Selenite reduction

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COPPER; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RHIZOBIUM; SODIUM SELENITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM SULLAE;

EID: 33847648982     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00617.x     Document Type: Article

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