Crystal structure of Escherichia coli SufA involved in biosynthesis of iron-sulfur clusters: Implications for a functional dimer

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 29, 2005, Pages 6543-6548

  Wada, Kei ^a   Hasegawa, Yuko ^a   Gong, Zhao ^a   Minami, Yoshiko ^b   Fukuyama, Keiichi ^a   Takahashi, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Iron; Iron sulfur cluster; IscA; SufA

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIMER; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; TETRAMER;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IRON; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SULFUR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27944484814     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.10.046     Document Type: Article

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