NarJ is a specific chaperone required for molybdenum cofactor assembly in nitrate reductase A of Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 435-447

  Blasco, Francis ^a   Dos Santos, Jean Philippe ^a   Magalon, Axel ^a   Frixon, Chantal ^a   Guigliarelli, Bruno ^b   Santini, Claire Lise ^a   Giordano, Gérard ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDOPTERIN; NITRATE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL FRACTIONATION; COENZYMES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTIDINE; METALLOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; PLASMIDS; PTERIDINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0031979433     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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