The sulfur oxygenase reductase from Acidianus ambivalens is an icosatetramer as shown by crystallization and Patterson analysis

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1747, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 267-270

  Urich, Tim ^a,b   Coelho, Ricardo ^b   Kletzin, Arnulf ^a   Frazao, Carlos ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Archaea; Crystallization; Extremophile; Non heme iron protein; Quaternary structure; Sulfur metabolism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SULFUR OXYGENASE REDUCTASE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDIANUS; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

ACIDIANUS AMBIVALENS; ARCHAEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 13444271949     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2004.11.015     Document Type: Article

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