Patent ID: 6136588
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: C12N

Abstract:
An isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a bacterial nitric oxide reductase gene product, wherein said gene product functions to produce a bacterial nitric oxide reductase selected from the group consisting of:(a) An isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding all or a portion of the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 6 and SEQ ID NO: 8;(b) an isolated nucleic acid fragment having at least 90% identity with the nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 7;(c) an isolated nucleic acid fragment that hybridizes with SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 5 and SEQ ID NO: 7 under the following hybridization conditions: 0.1X SSC, 0.1% SDS, 65.degree. C.; and(d) an isolated nucleic acid fragment that is complementary to (a), (b) or (c).