Novel Rhodobacter capsulatus genes required for the biogenesis of various c-type cytochromes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 123-138

  Deshmukh, Meenal ^a   Brasseur, Gael ^a,b   Daldal, Fevzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CHAPERONE; COPROPORPHYRIN; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME C; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN DISULFIDE REDUCTASE (GLUTATHIONE); PROTOPORPHYRIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE FUSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033982955     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01683.x     Document Type: Article

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