Molecular analysis of two bacterioferritin genes, bfra and bfrβ, in the model rhizobacterium pseudomonas putida KT2440

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 5335-5343

  Chen, Shicheng ^a   Bleam, William F ^a   Hickey, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOFERRITIN; CELL DENSITY; DEPENDENT FUNCTIONS; DOUBLE MUTANTS; FLUORESCENT PSEUDOMONADS; IN-CELL; IRON HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REGULATORY MOTIFS; REGULATORY SYSTEMS; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SINGLE MUTANT; WILD TYPES;

BACTERIA; OXYGEN; TOXICITY;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOFERRITIN; CYTOCHROME B; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATING PROTEINS, BACTERIAL; FERRITIN; IRON; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; IRON; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN; RHIZOBACTERIUM; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; FERRITINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; IRON; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 77955969827     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00215-10     Document Type: Article

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