Enterococcus faecalis glutathione reductase: purification, characterization and expression under normal and hyperbaric O2 conditions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 155-163

  Patel, Mehul P ^a   Marcinkeviciene, Jovita ^a   Blanchard, John S ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecalis; Glutathione reductase; Oxidative stress; Thiol content

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031656590     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00325-5     Document Type: Article

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