Isolation, characterisation and expression of the bacterioferritin gene of Rhodobacter capsulatus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 139, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 143-148

  Penfold, Christopher N ^a   Ringeling, Patricia L ^a   Davy, Sharon L ^a   Moore, Geoffrey R ^a   McEwan, Alastair G ^b   Spiro, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

bacterioferritin; Dps; ferritin; iron metabolism; Rhodobacter capsulatus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOFERRITIN; FERRITIN; IRON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 0029937151     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00133-4     Document Type: Article

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