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J Bacteriol. 1969 April; 98(1): 56-61
Copyright © 1969 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
ABSTRACT
A number of chlorate-resistant mutants were selected, and one of these, clr68-5, was studied in detail. This mutant cannot utilize nitrate in vivo to overcome the effect of nonmetabolizable repressors of nitrogenase. The reason for this inability was that strain clr68-5 lacked nitrate reductase. Nitrate inhibited the activity of nitrogenase but did not act as a corepressor of nitrogenase in strain clr68-5 as it does in the wild type. Ammonia seemed to act as corepressor of nitrogenase in both strains.
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