Genetic analysis of trimethylamine N-oxide reductases in the light organ symbiont Vibrio fischeri ES114

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5814-5823

  Dunn, Anne K ^a,b   Stabb, Eric V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUPRYMA SCOLOPES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT; JUVENILE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MODEL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SQUID; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO FISCHERI; VIBRIONACEAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DECAPODIFORMES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; RHODOBACTER; SEPIOLIDAE; SHEWANELLA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO FISCHERI; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 50249161153     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00227-08     Document Type: Article

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