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what is the purpose of periplasmic nitrate reductase (NapAB)? |
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| (dmso reductase family, catalyzes the first step of the denitrification process in bacteria) |
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| what does a mutation of the nap region of NapAB cause? |
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| renders the cells incapable of growing under anaerobic conditions with nitrate as the alternative electron acceptor. NO NITRATE REDUCTION activity will be detected in strains of pseudomonas that have been mutated in the NAP region (nap- mutant) |
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| what subject's perimplasmic nitrate reductase did we study? |
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