Assignment of the [4Fe-4S] clusters of Ech hydrogenase from Methanosarcina barkeri to individual subunits via the characterization of site-directed mutants

FEBS Journal

Volumn 272, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 4741-4753

  Forzi, Lucia ^a   Koch, Jürgen ^a   Guss, Adam M ^b   Radosevich, Carl G ^b   Metcalf, William W ^b   Hedderich, Reiner ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

NiFe hydrogenases; Complex I; Iron sulfur proteins; Methanogenic archaea; NADH:quinone oxidoreductase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; HYDROGENASE; PROTEIN ECH HYDROGENASE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ION TRANSPORT; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; NONHUMAN; PH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TITRIMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTON PUMPS;

METHANOSARCINA BARKERI;

EID: 25444499441     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04889.x     Document Type: Article

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