Novel reiterated Fnr-type proteins control the production of the symbiotic terminal oxidase cbb3 in Rhizobium etli CFN42

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1241-1249

  Granados Baeza, Manuel J ^a   Gómez Hernández, Nicolás ^a   Mora, Yolanda ^a   Delgado, María J ^b   Romero, David ^a   Girard, Lourdes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CBB3 OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 34548689587     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-10-1241     Document Type: Article

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