Isolation, characterization and crystallization of an iron-superoxide dismutase from the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-70

  Kardinahl, S ^a   Schmidt, C L ^a   Petersen, A ^b   Schafer G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Crystallization; Iron; Sulfolobaceae; Superoxide dismutase; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

IRON; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY;

ARCHAEA; NEGIBACTERIA; SULFOLOBACEAE; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 0029984175     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00090-0     Document Type: Article

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