Purification and characterization of triheme cytochrome c7 from the metal-reducing bacterium, Geobacter metallireducens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-210

  Afkar, Eman ^a   Fukumori, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome c; Geobacter metallireducens; Iron respiration

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; IRON METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GRAM-NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0032796162     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00199-8     Document Type: Article

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