The PRC-barrel: a widespread, conserved domain shared by photosynthetic reaction center subunits and proteins of RNA metabolism

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Anantharaman, Vivek ^a   Aravind, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucella Melitensis; Cyanobacterium Anabaena; Deinococcus Radiodurans; Photosynthetic Reaction Center; Purple Bacterium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOBACTERIA; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS;

EID: 17144456169     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-11-research0061     Document Type: Article

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