The presumptive magnetosome protein Mms16 is a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) granule-bound protein (phasin) in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2416-2425

  Schultheiss, Daniel ^a   Handrick, René ^b,d   Jendrossek, Dieter ^b   Hanzlik, Marianne ^c   Schüler, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MAGNETOSOME PROTEIN; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL FRACTIONATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYESTERS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 15344351224     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.7.2416-2425.2005     Document Type: Article

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