Transcription of all amoC copies is associated with recovery of Nitrosomonas europaea from ammonia starvation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3935-3944

  Berube, Paul M ^a   Samudrala, Ram ^a   Stahl, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; HOLOENZYME; NUCLEASE S1; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMOC GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

EID: 34249801778     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01861-06     Document Type: Article

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