A 71-kDa protein from Halobacterium salinarium belongs to a ubiquitous P-loop ATPase superfamily with head-rod-tail structure

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Ruepp, Andreas ^a   Wanner, Gerhard ^b   Soppa, Jörg ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; Cell morphology; Chromosome partitioning; Coiled coil; Cytoskeleton; Halobacterium salinarium; MukB; P115; SMC1

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; HALOFERAX; METHANOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031909198     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050534     Document Type: Article

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