Role of conserved cysteine residues in Herbaspirillum seropedicae NifA activity

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 389-395

  Oliveira, Marco A S ^a   Baura, Valter A ^a   Aquino, Bruno ^a   Huergo, Luciano F ^a   Kadowaki, Marco A S ^a   Chubatsu, Leda S ^a   Souza, Emanuel M ^a   Dixon, Ray ^b   Pedrosa, Fábio O ^a   Wassem, Roseli ^a   Monteiro, Rose A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Herbaspirillum seropedicae; NifA; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; HOLOENZYME; OXYGEN; PROTEIN NIFA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HERBASPIRILLUM; HERBASPIRILLUM SEROPEDICAE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HERBASPIRILLUM; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HERBASPIRILLUM SEROPEDICAE;

EID: 69049090680     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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