The roles of different regions of the CycH protein in c-type cytochrome biogenesis in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-179

  Cinege, G ^a   Kereszt, A ^a   Kertesz S ^a   Balogh, G ^a   Dusha, I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

c type cytochrome; Heme C biosynthesis; Protoporphyrin IX; Sinorhizobium meliloti; Tetratricopeptide domains

Indexed keywords

APOCYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C; HEME DERIVATIVE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN CYCH; PROTOPORPHYRIN; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COVALENT BOND; CYCH GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEME; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 1842687087     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0968-2     Document Type: Article

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