The effect of ammonium on assimilatory nitrate reduction in the haloarchaeon Haloferax mediterranei

Extremophiles

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 759-767

  Martínez Espinosa, Rosa María ^a   Lledó, Belén ^a   Marhuenda Egea, Frutos C ^a   Bonete, María José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium assimilation; Archaeon; Halophile; Nitrate assimilation; Nitrate reductase; Nitrite reductase; Nitrogen regulation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE (NADPH); NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE [NAD(P)H]; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM NITRATE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; TIME;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; NITRATE REDUCTASE (NADPH); NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASE (NAD(P)H); NITRITES; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; HALOBACTERIA; HALOFERAX MEDITERRANEI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 35748940921     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: 14334909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-007-0095-9     Document Type: Article

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