Biochemical and mutational characterization of the heme chaperone CcmE reveals a heme binding site

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 175-183

  Enggist, Elisabeth ^a   Schneider, Michael J ^a   Schulz, Henk ^a   Thöny Meyer, Linda ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CHAPERONE; CYSTEINE; HEME; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN CCME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; POINT MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037214399     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.1.175-183.2003     Document Type: Article

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