Bacterial flavohaemoglobins: A consensus sequence and identification of a discrete enterobacterial group and of further bacterial globins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-181

  Membrillo Hernández, Jorge ^a   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial haemoglobin; Enterobacteria; Flavohaemoglobin; hmp

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA PURIFICATION; ENTEROBACTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALCALIGENES EUTROPHUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 0031572408     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00384-4     Document Type: Article

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