Bacterial nitrate assimilation: Gene distribution and regulation

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1838-1843

  Luque Almagro, Víctor M ^a   Gates, Andrew J ^b   Moreno Vivián, Conrado ^a   Ferguson, Stuart J ^c   Richardson, David J ^b   Roldán, M Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nitrate assimilation; Nitrate reductase; Nitrate transport; Nitrite reductase; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE NIRK; PROTEIN GLNB; PROTEIN GLNK; PROTEIN HFQ; PROTEIN NASF; PROTEIN NTCA; PROTEIN NTRC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN NASR; REGULATOR PROTEIN NASST; REGULATOR PROTEIN NTCB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTEROMONADALES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BURKHOLDERIALES; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; METHYLOCOCCUS CAPSULATUS; NITRATE ASSIMILATION; NITRATE METABOLISM; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS EUROPEA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHIZOBIALES; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOBACTERALES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITRATES; NITROGEN;

ARCHAEA; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 81855219081     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20110688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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