Assembly of iron-sulfur clusters mediated by cysteine desulfurases, IscS, CsdB and CSD, from Escherichia coli

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1647, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 303-309

  Kurihara, Tatsuo ^a   Mihara, Hisaaki ^a   Kato, Shin Ichiro ^a   Yoshimura, Tohru ^a   Esaki, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CSD; CsdB; Cysteine desulfurase; Iron sulfur cluster; IscS; IscU

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; CYSTEINE; FERREDOXIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CSD; PROTEIN CSDB; PROTEIN ISCS; SULFUR; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DISULFIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LYASE; SELENOCYSTEINE LYASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; DISULFIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LYASES;

EID: 1242318521     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-9639(03)00078-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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