Novel organization and divergent dockerin specificities in the cellulosome system of Ruminococcus flavefaciens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 703-713

  Rincon, Marco T ^a   Ding, Shi You ^b,c,f   McCrae, Sheila I ^a   Martin, Jennifer C ^a   Aurilia, Vincenzo ^d   Lamed, Raphael ^c   Shoham, Yuval ^e   Bayer, Edward A ^b   Flint, Harry J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; CELLULOSOME; COHESIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SCAA; PROTEIN SCAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL WALL; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; RUMEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; RUMINOCOCCUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

EID: 0037310767     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.3.703-713.2003     Document Type: Article

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