Expression of nitrous oxide reductase in Paracoccus denitrificans is regulated by oxygen and nitric oxide through FnrP and NNR

Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 826-834

  Bergaust, Linda ^a   van Spanning, Rob J M ^b   Frostegård, Åsa ^a   Bakken, Lars R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DENITRIFICATION; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DENITRIFICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS;

EID: 84857727573     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.054148-0     Document Type: Article

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