Hydrogenase from the thermophilic bacterium Thermococcus stetteri: Isolation and characterisation of EPR-detectable redox centres

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-76

  Zorin, Nikolay A ^a   Medina, Milagros ^b   Pusheva, Margarita A ^c   Gogotov, Ivan N ^a   Cammack, Richard ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

EPR spectroscopy; Extreme thermophile; Hydrogenase; Iron sulfur protein; Thermococcus stetteri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYDROGENASE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

ALCALIGENES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; THERMOCOCCUS STETTERI; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 0030586722     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00245-5     Document Type: Article

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