Crossing the borders: Archaeal rhodopsins go bacterial

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 405-407

  Gärtner, Wolfgang ^a   Losi, Aba ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTON PUMP; RETINAL; RHODOPSIN; SENSORY RHODOPSIN;

ANABAENA; BACTERIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ION TRANSPORT; LIGHT; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY;

ANABAENA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 17744413859     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00203-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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