Involvement of products of the nrfEFG genes in the covalent attachment of haem c to a novel cysteine-lysine motif in the cytochrome c552 nitrite reductase from Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 205-216

  Eaves, D J ^a   Grove, J ^a   Staudenmann, W ^b   James, P ^b   Poole, R K ^c   White, S A ^a   Griffiths, I ^a   Cole, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; HEME; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEME; LYSINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NITRITE REDUCTASES; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031895861     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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