Transposon Mutagenesis in Purple Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria: Identification of hypF, Encoding a Protein Capable of Processing [NiFe] Hydrogenases in α, β, and γ Subdivisions of the Proteobacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2476-2483

  Fodor, Barna ^a   Rákhely, Gábor ^a   Kovács, Ákos T ^a   Kovács, Kornél L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROGENASE; HYPF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; NICKEL IRON HYDROGENASE; NICKEL-IRON HYDROGENASE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOBACTERIA; THIOCAPSA ROSEOPERSICINA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIOCAPSA ROSEOPERSICINA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035379694     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.6.2476-2483.2001     Document Type: Article

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