Novel genes of the dsr gene cluster and evidence for close interaction of Dsr proteins during sulfur oxidation in the phototrophic sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1392-1404

  Dahl, Christiane ^a,c   Engels, Sabine ^a   Pott Sperling, Andrea S ^a   Schulte, Andrea ^a   Sander, Johannes ^a   Lübbe, Yvonne ^a   Deuster, Oliver ^a   Brune, Daniel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Inst fur Mikrobiol and Biotech   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIDE; AMIDE SYNTHASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COBYRINIC ACID A,C DIAMIDE SYNTHASE; CYTOCHROME C; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DRSJ PROTEIN; DRSL PROTEIN; DRSO PROTEIN; DSR PROTEIN; DSRC PROTEIN; DSRE PROTEIN; DSRF PROTEIN; DSRH PROTEIN; DSRJ PROTEIN; DSRK PROTEIN; DSRM PROTEIN; DSRN PROTEIN; DSRP PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HEME; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; SULFIDE; SULFITE REDUCTASE; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DSR GENE; DSRJ GENE; DSRL GENE; DSRN GENE; DSRO GENE; DSRP GENE; DSRR GENE; DSRS GENE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE CLUSTER; HEME SYNTHESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIACEAE; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; SULFUR; THIOSULFATES; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 14544272337     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.4.1392-1404.2005     Document Type: Article

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