Rhizobium leguminosarum hupE encodes a nickel transporter required for hydrogenase activity

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 925-935

  Brito, Belén ^a   Prieto, Rosa Isabel ^a   Cabrera, Ezequiel ^a   Mandrand Berthelot, Marie Andrée ^b,c,d   Imperial, Juan ^a   Ruiz Argüeso, Tomás ^a   Palacios, José Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENASE; KANAMYCIN; NICKEL; PERMEASE; PLASMID DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; HUPE GENE; LENTIL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PEA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LENS CULINARIS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI;

EID: 75749113307     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01045-09     Document Type: Article

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