Corynebacterium diphtheriae genes required for acquisition of iron from haemin and haemoglobin are homologous to ABC haemin transporters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 68-84

  Drazek, E Susan ^a   Hammack Sr , Craig A ^a   Schmitt, Michael P ^a,b  

^a Division of Viral Products   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; HEMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HEMIN; HEMOGLOBINS; IRON; LIPOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034128270     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01818.x     Document Type: Article

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