Article
[Cloning and identification of the gene controlling nitrogen metabolism in the photosynthetic purple bacteria Rhodobacter sphaeroides].
Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Glazer V M, Tevzadze G G, Babykin M M, Smirnova V A, Zinchenko V V, Shestakov S V
Abstract excerpt
A recombinant plasmid has been selected from the genomic library of Rhodobacter sphaeroides that restores the properties of the wild type strain in the mutant Drn121. The latter possesses the derepressed synthesis of nitrogenase when grown in the light, inability of nitrogen fixation in the dark...
Topics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Bacterial
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Mutation
- Nitrogen
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Operon
- Photosynthesis
- Plasmids
- Rhodobacter sphaeroides