Oxygen Sensitivity of the NifLA Promoter of Klebsiella Pneumoniae

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1986 Apr 1

PMID 3082858

Citations 9

Authors

Q T Kong

Q L Wu

Z F Ma

S C Shen

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Abstract

Oxygen sensitivity of the nifLA promoter of Klebsiella pneumoniae has been demonstrated. Studies on the oxygen regulation of nifB-lacZ and nifH-lacZ fusions in the presence of the nifLA operon, which contains either an intact or a deleted nifL gene, indicate that possibly both the nifL promoter and the nifL product are responsible for nif repression by oxygen.

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