Molecular characterization and transcriptional regulation of nitrate reductase in a ruminal bacterium, Selenomonas ruminantium

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 55-63

  Asanuma, Narito ^a   Iwamoto, Miwa ^a   Yoshii, Takahiro ^a   Hino, Tsuneo ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nar gene; Nitrate reductase; Ruminal bacterium; Selenomonas ruminantium

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FUMARIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; SELENOMONAS; SELENOMONAS RUMINANTIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; OPERON; RUMEN; SELENOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SELENOMONAS; SELENOMONAS RUMINANTIUM;

EID: 4344694276     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.50.55     Document Type: Article

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