The thioredoxin reductase system of mycoplasmas

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1933-1940

  Ben Menachem, G ^a   Himmelreich, R ^b   Herrmann, R ^b   Aharonowitz, Y ^c   Rottem, S ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mollicutes; Mycoplasma capricolum; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; NADP thioredoxin reductase; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENZYME ANTIBODY; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; ISOLEUCINE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 0030757505     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-6-1933     Document Type: Article

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