The electron transfer flavoprotein fixABCX gene products from Azospirillum brasilense show a NifA-dependent promoter regulation

Current Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 267-273

  Sperotto, Raul Antonio ^a   Gross, Jeferson ^a   Vedoy, Cleber ^a   Pereira Passaglia, Luciane Maria ^a   Schrank, Irene Silveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FLAVOPROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN NIFA; PROTEIN NIFF; PROTEIN NIFJ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE FIXA; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE FIXB; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE FIXC; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE FIXX; BACTERIAL GENE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIXABCX GENE; FIXC GENE; FIXX GENE; GENE; GENE FUSION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON-TRANSFERRING FLAVOPROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AZOSPIRILLUM; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 4744369459     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4318-3     Document Type: Article

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