The Oxa2 Protein of Neurospora crassa Plays, a Critical Role in the Biogenesis of Cytochrome Oxidase and Defines a Ubiquitous Subbranch of the Oxa1/YidC/Alb3 Protein Family

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1853-1861

  Funes, Soledad ^a   Nargang, Frank E ^b   Neupert, Walter ^a   Herrmann, Johannes M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ALB3; PROTEIN OXA1; PROTEIN OXA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOGENESIS; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIVISION; DNA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 1642423514     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-11-0789     Document Type: Article

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