Isolation, cloning, sequence analysis and localization of the operon encoding dimethyl sulfoxide/trimethylamine N-oxide reductase from Rhodobacter capsulatus

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-52

  Knäblein, Jörg ^a   Mann, Karlheinz ^a   Ehlert, Stephan ^a   Fonstein, Michael ^b   Huber, Robert ^a   Schneider, Frank ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cloning; Dimethyl sulfoxide reductase; Rhodobacter capsulatus; Sequencing; Trimethylamine N oxide reductase

Indexed keywords

APOENZYME; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0030592480     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0554     Document Type: Article

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