The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of the chemolithoautotrophic bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans has an unusual E2-E3 subunit fusion

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2189-2195

  Powles, Rosamund ^a   Rawlings, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Molecular cloning; Pyruvate dehydrogenase; Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; THIOBACILLUS;

EID: 0030837376     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-7-2189     Document Type: Article

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