Periplasmic copper-zinc superoxide dismutase protects Haemophilus ducreyi from exogenous superoxide

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 391-404

  San Mateo, Lani R ^a   Hobbs, Marcia M ^a   Kawula, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PARAQUAT; SUPEROXIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONSTRUCT; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPPER; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PARAQUAT; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES; ZINC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031973903     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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