The cysteine-desulfurase IscS promotes the production of the rhodanese RhdA in the persulfurated form

FEBS Letters

Volumn 579, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 6786-6790

  Forlani, Fabio ^a   Cereda, Angelo ^a   Freuer, Andrea ^b   Nimtz, Manfred ^c   Leimkühler, Silke ^d   Pagani, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cysteine desulfurase; Rhodanese; Sulfane sulfur transfer

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PROTEIN ISCS; PROTEIN RHDA; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; COMPLEX FORMATION; COVALENT BOND; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTIDINE; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 28844486737     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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