The roles of the nitrate reductase NarGHJI, the nitrite reductase NirBD and the response regulator GlnR in nitrate assimilation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1332-1339

  Malm, Sven ^a   Tiffert, Yvonne ^b   Micklinghoff, Julia ^a   Schultze, Sonja ^a   Joost, Insa ^a   Weber, Isabel ^a   Horst, Sarah ^a   Ackermann, Birgit ^a   Schmidt, Mascha ^a   Wohlleben, Wolfgang ^b   Ehlers, Stefan ^d   Geffers, Robert ^c   Reuther, Jens ^b   Bange, Franz Christoph ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PROTEIN GLNR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 65649121899     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.023275-0     Document Type: Article

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