Overproduction of Sac7d and Sac7e reveals only Sac7e to be a DNA-Binding protein with ribonuclease activity from the extremophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 545-551

  Kulms, Dagmar ^a   Schäfer, Günter ^b   Hahn, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaea; DNA binding proteins; Sulfolobus; Thermostable ribonuclease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BASIC PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC AND METHANE PRODUCING BACTERIA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 0343852964     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.6.545     Document Type: Article

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