Reactions of Nitric Oxide and Oxygen with the Regulator of Fumarate and Nitrate Reduction, a Global Transcriptional Regulator, during Anaerobic Growth of Escherichia coli

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 437, Issue , 2008, Pages 191-209

  Crack, Jason C ^a   Le Brun, Nick E ^a   Thomson, Andrew J ^a   Green, Jeffrey ^b   Jervis, Adrian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIMER; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; FUMARIC ACID; IRON; MONOMER; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PEROXIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SULFIDE; SUPEROXIDE; ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FERRYL IRON; FNR PROTEIN, E COLI; FUMARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANALYTIC METHOD; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NITROSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PURIFICATION; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACIDS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FUMARATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PEROXIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SULFIDES; SUPEROXIDES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 47049120326     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)37011-0     Document Type: Chapter

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