A cambialistic superoxide dismutase in the thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3408-3414

  Lancaster, Vanessa L ^a   LoBrutto, Russell ^b   Selvaraj, Fabiyola M ^a,c   Blankenship, Robert E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ribomed Biotechnologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; IRON; MANGANESE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATALYSIS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROFLEXUS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2442646496     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.11.3408-3414.2004     Document Type: Article

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