Arsenite oxidase, an ancient bioenergetic enzyme

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 686-693

  Lebrun, Evelyne ^a   Brugna, Myriam ^a,c   Baymann, Frauke ^a   Muller, Daniel ^b   Lièvremont, Didier ^b   Lett, Marie Claire ^b   Nitschke, Wolfgang ^a  

^a CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arsenite; Bioenergetics; Evolution; Molybdopterin protein; Phylogeny; Rieske protein

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE OXIDASE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE REDUCTASE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENOME; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXUS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0013139343     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg071     Document Type: Article

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