The puf operon of the purple sulfur bacterium Amoebobacter purpureus: Structure, transcription and phylogenetic analysis

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 431-443

  Tuschak, Christian ^a   Leung, Molly M ^b   Beatty, J Thomas ^b   Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromatiaceae; Light harvesting complexes; puf genes; Purple sulfur bacteria; Reaction center

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; AMOEBOBACTER PURPUREUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; CHROMATIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SULFUR BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIACEAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALLOCHROMATIUM VINOSUM; CHROMATIACEAE; ECTOTHIORHODOSPIRACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LAMPROCYSTIS PURPUREA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 24044447282     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0016-1     Document Type: Article

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