Structural characterization of an iron-sulfur cluster assembly protein IscU in a zinc-bound form

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 875-881

  Liu, Jinyu ^a   Oganesyan, Natalia ^a   Shin, Dong Hae ^a   Jancarik, Jarmila ^b   Yokota, Hisao ^a   Kim, Rosalind ^a   Kim, Sung Hou ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON SULFUR CLUSTER ASSEMBLY PROTEIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; PROTEIN ISCU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA PRIMERS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ZINC;

EID: 18844420058     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20421     Document Type: Article

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