Expression of plastocyanin and cytochrome f of the cyanobacterium Phormidium laminosum in Escherichia coli and Paracoccus denitrificans and the role of leader peptides

Gene

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-283

  Schlarb, Beatrix G ^a   Wagner, Michael J ^a   Vijgenboom, Erik ^b   Ubbink, Marcellus ^b   Bendall, Derek S ^a   Howe, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

petA; petE; Photosynthetic electron transfer; Protein targeting

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME F; PLASTOCYANIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; CYTOCHROMES; CYTOCHROMES F; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PLASMIDS; PLASTOCYANIN; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PARACOCCUS VERSUTUS; PHORMIDIUM LAMINOSUM; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033029167     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00198-5     Document Type: Article

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