Towards understanding the nitrogen signal transduction for nif gene expression in Klebsiella pneumoniae

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 6281-6294

  Glöer, Jens ^a   Thummer, Robert ^a   Ullrich, Heike ^a   Schmitz, Ruth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

GlnK; Klebsiella pneumoniae; nif gene transcriptional control; NifA; NifL

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; NITROGEN; PROTEIN GLNK; TAQ POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NIFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NIFB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SCREENING; INHIBITION KINETICS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTAGENESIS; NIF GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; KINETICS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 56849120304     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06752.x     Document Type: Article

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