Unusual transcription regulation of the niaD gene under anaerobic conditions supporting fungal ammonia fermentation

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 978-980

  Takasaki, Kazuto ^a   Shoun, Hirofumi ^b   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Hoshino, Takayuki ^a   Takaya, Naoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia fermentation; Ammonium repression; Aspergillus nidulans; Nitrate reductase

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CELL EXTRACT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITRATE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DRUG EFFECT; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

AMMONIA; ANAEROBIOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; CELL EXTRACTS; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 4544366698     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.68.978     Document Type: Article

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