Characterization by mass spectroscopy of a 10 kDa c-554 cytochrome from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-160

  Rémigy, Hervé W ^a,b   Aivaliotis, Michails ^a   Ioannidis, Nikos ^c   Jenö, Paul ^b   Mini, Thierry ^b   Engel, Andreas ^b   Jaquinod, Michel ^d   Tsiotis, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Chlorobium tepidum; Cytochrome; Isoelectric focusing; Mass spectrometry; Peptic cleavage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBACULUM TEPIDUM; CHLOROBIUM;

EID: 0346120043     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PRES.0000004347.34228.2c     Document Type: Article

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