Bacterial cysteine desulfurases: Their function and mechanisms

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 12-23

  Mihara, H ^a   Esaki, N ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOTIN; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; MOLYBDOPTERIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; NUCLEOSIDE; PROTEIN ISCA; PROTEIN ISCU; PROTEIN NIFS; PROTEIN NIFU; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; SELENIUM; SELENOPROTEIN; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; THIAMINE; THIOCTIC ACID; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0037209757     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-002-1107-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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