Expression of nitrite reductase in Nitrosomonas europaea involves NsrR, a novel nitrite-sensitive transcription repressor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 148-158

  Beaumont, Hubertus J E ^a,b   Lens, Sylvia I ^a   Reijnders, Willem N M ^a   Westerhoff, Hans V ^a   Van Spanning, Rob J M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL GENE; DENITRIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NSRR GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA; NITROUS OXIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA;

EID: 4744352703     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04248.x     Document Type: Article

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