The multicopper oxidase CutO confers copper tolerance to Rhodobacter capsulatus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-74

  Wiethaus, Jessica ^a   Wildner, Günter F ^a   Masepohl, Bernd ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copper tolerance; Gene regulation; Laccase; Multicopper oxidase; Photosynthetic bacterium; Rhodobacter capsulatus

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL OXIDASE; COPPER; COPPER DERIVATIVE; LACCASE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MULTICOPPER OXIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION; PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CARRIER PROTEINS; COPPER; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 33645066356     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2005.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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