Functional and physiological evidence for a Rhesus-type ammonia transporter in Nitrosomonas europaea

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 260-267

  Weidinger, Kerstin ^a   Neuhäuser, Benjamin ^b   Gilch, Stefan ^a   Ludewig, Uwe ^b   Meyer, Ortwin ^a   Schmidt, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ammonium transport; Methylammonium; Nitrogen metabolism; Nitrosomonas europaea; Rh type transporter; Rh1

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; METHYLAMMONIUM;

AMMONIUM UPTAKE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RH1 GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ACETYLENE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; ION TRANSPORT; METHYLAMINES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, MESSENGER;

NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34447525672     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00805.x     Document Type: Article

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