Altered residues in key proteins influence the expression and activity of the nitrogenase complex in an adaptive CO2 fixation-deficient mutant strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2014, Pages 198-208

  Farmer, Ryan M ^a   Laguna, Rick ^a   Panescu, Jenny ^a   McCoy, Anthony ^a   Logsdon, Beth ^a   Zianni, Mike ^a   Moskvin, Oleg V ^b,c   Gomelsky, Mark ^b   Robert Tabita, F ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLNA GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NIFA GENE; NIFK GENE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROSEQUENCING; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NITROGENASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84891618243     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.073031-0     Document Type: Article

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