Auracyanin A from the thermophilic green gliding photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus represents an unusual class of small blue copper proteins

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 947-957

  Van Driessche, Gonzalez ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Van De Werken, Gerrit ^b   Selvaraj, Fabiyola ^c   McManus, James D ^c   Blankenship, Robert E ^c   Van Beeumen, Jozef J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auracyanins; Chloroflexus; Cupredoxin; Evolution; Primary structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AURACYANIN A; AZURIN; GLYCINE; PLASTOCYANIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION; FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; LUCIA LIMBARIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0032924955     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.5.947     Document Type: Article

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