Role of the H protein in assembly of the photochemical reaction center and intracytoplasmic membrane in Rhodospirillum rubrum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1200-1207

  Cheng, Yongjian S ^a   Brantner, Christine A ^a,b   Tsapin, Alexandre ^a,c   Collins, Mary Lynne Perille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; OXYGEN;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 0033953966     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.5.1200-1207.2000     Document Type: Article

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