Xanthine dehydrogenase from the phototrophic purple bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus is more similar to its eukaryotic counterparts than to prokaryotic molybdenum enzymes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 853-869

  Leimkühler, Silke ^a   Kern, Monika ^a,d   Solomon, Peter S ^b   McEwan, Alastair G ^b   Schwarz, Günter ^c   Mendel, Ralf R ^c   Klipp, Werner ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYPOXANTHINE; MOLYBDENUM; NITROGEN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; XANTHINE; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFOVIBRIO; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYMES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLYBDENUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XANTHINE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 0031940235     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00733.x     Document Type: Review

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