Overexpression and characterization of an iron storage and DNA-binding Dps protein from Trichodesmium erythraeum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2918-2924

  Castruita, M ^a   Saito, M ^b   Schottel, P C ^a   Elmegreen, L A ^a   Myneni, S ^a   Stiefel, E I ^a   Morel, F M M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; IRON; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FE-BINDING PROTEIN; GENE ENCODING; MARINE MICROORGANISMS; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

DNA;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FERRITIN;

CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA; GENE; GENOME; MICROORGANISM; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA DEGRADATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IRON STORAGE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEAWATER;

EQUUS CABALLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRICHODESMIUM ERYTHRAEUM;

EID: 33646116825     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.4.2918-2924.2006     Document Type: Article

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