The genes coding for the L, M and cytochrome subunits of the photosynthetic reaction center from the thermophilic purple sulfur bacterium Chromatium tepidum

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-82

  Fathir, Insan ^a   Tanaka, Kohki ^a   Yoza, Kenji ^a   Kojima, Akihiko ^a   Kobayashi, Masayuki ^c   Wang, Zheng Yu ^a   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^b   Nozawa, Tsunenori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

subclass; Chromatiaceae; Membrane protein; PCR; puf operon; Tetraheme cytochrome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMATIACEAE; CHROMATIUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOCHROMATIUM TEPIDUM;

EID: 0030822870     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005718404736     Document Type: Article

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