Membrane-bound nitrate reductase is required for anaerobic growth in cystic fibrosis sputum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4449-4455

  Palmer, Kelli L ^a   Brown, Stacie A ^a   Whiteley, Marvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; RNA;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUNG INFECTION; MEMBRANE BINDING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTANT; NARG GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPUTUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34250328344     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00162-07     Document Type: Article

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