A soxA gene, encoding a diheme cytochrome c, and a sox locus, essential for sulfur oxidation in a new sulfur lithotrophic bacterium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 4278-4287

  Mukhopadhyaya, Pratap N ^a,b   Deb, Chirajyoti ^a,c   Lahiri, Chandrajit ^a   Roy, Pradosh ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Molecular Genetics Laboratory   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; SUCCINIC ACID; SULFITE OXIDASE; SULFUR; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; THIOSULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM KCT001; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SULFUR BACTERIUM; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM-NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SULFUR; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0033927420     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.15.4278-4287.2000     Document Type: Article

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