Extracellular superoxide dismutase from Streptococcus pyogenes type 12 strain is manganese-dependent

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-224

  Gerlach, Dieter ^a   Reichardt, Werner ^a   Vettermann, Stefan ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; DNA sequence; Purification; Streptococcus pyogenes; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0032521075     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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