A novel endo-hydrogenase activity recycles hydrogen produced by Nitrogen fixation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ng, Gordon ^a   Tom, Curtis G S ^a   Park, Angela S ^a   Zenard, Lounis ^a   Ludwig, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; NICKEL IRON HYDROGENASE; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; HYDROGENASE 4, E COLI;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS;

AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIDASE; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 62849101829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004695     Document Type: Article

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